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Eating a balanced diet including protein from a greater variety of sources may help adults lower the risk of developing high blood pressure, according to new research. "Nutrition may be an easily accessible and effective measure to fight against hypertension," said study author Xianhui Qin, M.D. Participants were given a protein "variety score" based on the number of different sources of protein eaten out of 8 reported: whole grains, refined grains, processed red meat, unprocessed red meat, poultry, fish, egg and legumes. One point was given for each source of protein, with a maximum variety score of 8. The researchers...

A Colombian migrant's family is seeking answers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection after the married father-of-three died last month after crossing the United States-Mexico border and suffering a fatal fall. Juan Rivera, 37, was found dead February 24 next to a steel border fence he had reportedly climbed after paying a smuggler $800 to ferry him into the U.S. before he abandoned him in along the border line outside Arizona. Border agents assigned to U.S. Border Patrol's Yuma Sector encountered 19 migrants in San Luis and the group notified them of the possibility that another migrant may have died...

Hunter Biden’s firm Rosemont Seneca provided capital for the firms behind the creation of Biolabs in Ukraine. We heard on Tuesday from the US State Department that there were US Biolabs in Ukraine. Then on Wednesday the Biden regime backtracked and insisted there were no US-funded Biolabs in Ukraine. Why the sudden confusing messaging from the Biden gang? Especially when there are documents that prove the US was funding several of the Biolabs they set up in Ukraine to study potentially dangerous pathogens. It may be because Hunter Biden’s firm Rosemont Seneca was funding the firms involved in the building...

Astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who holds the ongoing record for longest space flight, is set to end his 355 days in space in just three weeks. The plan is for him to land in Kazakhstan with two Russian cosmonauts on a Russian spacecraft. But unprecedented sanctions against Russia could put Vande Hei's return on hold.

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.By a Biomedical Scientist“The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought that is, a...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee woman is accused of firing her gun into the air during an argument outside a Nashville bar, striking a person sleeping on the couch in her apartment, authorities said. Jonerica Johnson, 28, was charged with reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, public intoxication and possession of a handgun while under the influence, according to WKRN-TV. The dispute inside the bar spilled outside, and police said Johnson pulled out a pistol and fired a single shot into the air, the television station reported. She then crossed the street and fired two more shots into the air....

An invasive species of spider the size of a child's hand is expected to “colonize” the entire East Coast this spring by parachuting down from the sky, researchers at the University of Georgia announced last week. Why it matters: Large Joro spiders — millions of them — are expected to begin “ballooning” up and down the East Coast as early as May. Researchers have determined that the spiders can tolerate cold weather, but are harmless to humans as their fangs are too small to break human skin. The Joro spider is native to Japan but began infiltrating the U.S. in...

"You're just a charlatan, pretending to be the victim of a hate crime. You are now a permanently convicted felon."Jussie Smollett being sentenced now | LIVE: https://t.co/ohq91zZDhS pic.twitter.com/UCjdIAJxee— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 11, 2022

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Purim, March 16-17, 2022 Overview: Esther He will not let your foot slip— He who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, He who watches over Israel...

ABC News’ Jon Karl said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson was “echoing” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “classic propaganda.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “During Tucker Carlson’s show, Tucker Carlson led with and amplified, he chose to start his very, very highly rated program by amplifying Russia’s false claims that Jennifer Griffin, Fox News national security correspondent, knocks down.”

The National Science Center, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT), which was a hotbed of early nuclear research in the former Soviet Union and currently hosts a newly installed neutron source, has suffered significant damage from Russia’s relentless attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Rockets and bombs have damaged buildings and left civilians wounded, says Oleksandr Bakai, who heads the department of condensed matter and nuclear theory at KIPT and lives near the institute. The damaged facilities include the constructed but not fully operational Ukraine Neutron Source, according to the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine. After saying in...

Politicians and social media users call it 'unnecessary,' 'crazy' and a 'bad idea' A Catholic politician’s demand that the state government in Tamil Nadu keep liquor shops closed on Good Friday has triggered a backlash on social media. Peter Alphonse, the chairperson of Tamil Nadu Minorities Commission, wrote to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on March 3 urging him to close all government liquor shops on April 15. He said the liquor shops should be closed as a mark of respect and solidarity with the Christian community, which commemorates on Good Friday the passion and death of Jesus Christ with fasting...

The Russian terror campaign against Ukrainian civilians continues unabated even as its military operations resemble something dreamed up by the Three Stooges. On Wednesday, the Russian Air Force bombed a maternity hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol. They claimed that a very pregnant wounded woman, who happens to be a Ukrainian beauty blogger was a “crisis actor” (Alex Jones needs to demand royalties for this) before deleting their tweet. The Russians are claiming, without a shred of evidence, that the hospital was used for military purposes, that they had notified the UN (apparently in secret) that the hospital was...

The stinging mosquito; the blood-sucking beast; the destroyer of your evening peace; and the silent killer of your midnight sleep. Who knew these pesky little super-spreader of diseases could be transformed into flying vaccine-carrying syringes.Turning killers into savioursThe story goes back 11 years ago when a group of Japanese researchers genetically engineered mosquitoes that spread vaccines instead of disease. Now normally when mosquitoes bite, they inject a tiny drop of saliva that prevents your blood from clotting. What this group did was add an antigen--a compound that triggers an immune response--to the mix of proteins in their saliva.For their study,...

According to ZN.UA, obtained from reliable diplomatic sources, Russia put forward 6 demands to Ukraine. The first five of them, as Putin sees it, should be enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine. 1. Refusal to move to NATO. Neutral status of Ukraine. Russia, which attacked our country, is ready to become one of the guarantors. 2. Russian is the second state language. The abolition of all laws that infringe on it. 3. Recognition of Crimea by Ukraine as Russian. 4. Recognition by Ukraine of the independence of the DPR and LPR within the administrative boundaries of the regions (including the...

Sesame Street star Emilio Delgado, who played the role of Luis the Fix-It Shop owner on the iconic show, died at 81 Thursday at his New York City home. Delgado's wife Carol told TMZ that the actor was at home with his family when he passed away. Delgado had been diagnosed with the blood cancer Multiple Myeloma in December of 2020, according to the outlet, and had been in hospice care as of late. Carol said that prior to the pandemic shutdown two years ago, Delgado had been consistently working, including the lead role in a theatrical production called Quixote...

Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres, who was relieved Wednesday of his office as Bishop of Arecibo, said that he feels "blessed to suffer persecution and calumny." In a letter published on the Diocese of Arecibos’ website shortly after the Holy See Press Office announced the Pope's decision, Bishop Fernández Torres, 57, stated that "today I can hold my head high and even being imperfect and sinful, know that I have done the right thing and that gives me a lot of inner peace.” The bishop stressed that this experience “has helped me realize in a new way the grave responsibility that...

When state public health officials publish Monday's report about the latest COVID-19 impacts on Massachusetts, the cumulative death toll through two years of the pandemic will suddenly stand about 15% lower. The Baker administration will start using a new public health surveillance definition next week, narrowing the window of time between a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis and death required for the fatality to get attributed to the highly infectious virus. Saying the Bay State's earlier methodology led to a "significant overcount of deaths," officials said Thursday they will adopt a new system recommended by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists....

Satellite images taken on Thursday show that a large Russian military convoy, last seen northwest of Antonov airport, has largely dispersed and redeployed, US company Maxar Technologies said...

So far DC Health does not seem to have granted a single request for religious exemption from the vaccine mandate despite the paramount rights and guarantees under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.Sr. Deidre Byrne at the Republican National Convention, 2020.(Thomas More Society) – A beloved Roman Catholic nun, who is also a physician-surgeon and a retired U.S. Army colonel, is suing Washington, DC, over its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers. Thomas More Society attorneys filed suit on March 9, 2022, in the federal United States District Court for the...