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Friend Requests From Strangers Won’t Infect Your Computer

There’s a warning being spread around Facebook about accepting friend requests from strangers. It reads: “Please tell all the contacts in your messenger list not to accept friendship request from Andrea Wilson. She is a hacker and has the system connected to your Facebook account. If one of your contacts accepts it, you will also be hacked, so make sure that all your friends know it.”

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/2-wants-to-know/friend-requests-from-strangers-wont-infect-your-computer/83-527329402

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Environmentally-Caused Disease Crisis? Pesticide Damage to DNA Found ‘Programmed’ Into Future Generations

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When Dr. Paul Winchester, a pediatrician, moved to Indiana from Colorado in 2002, he noticed something disturbing—a high number of birth defects.

“I was used to the number of birth defects I should see in a community hospital, and I saw many more in Indiana,” said Winchester, who is medical director of the Neonatal and Intensive Care Unit at St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis.

Winchester decided to investigate the reason for the higher numbers of birth defects. His research zeroed in on the herbicide atrazine, one of the most widely used herbicides in the U.S. and the most commonly detected pesticide in U.S. drinking water.

Winchester and several other researchers including Michael Skinner, professor of biology at Washington State University’s Center for Reproductive Biology, conducted a study to see if there was a link between atrazine in drinking water and birth defects.

Studies have found that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor, a substance that can alter the human hormonal system. Atrazine was banned by the European Union because of its persistent groundwater contamination.

In their study, Winchester and his team found that concentrations of atrazine in drinking water were highest in May and June when farmers sprayed their fields with the herbicide. They also found that birth defects peaked during the same months indicating a close correlation.

“We plotted water concentrations and birth defects, and they fit like a hat,” Winchester said.

https://www.ecowatch.com/generational-harm-of-pesticides-2596453994.html

https://www.ecowatch.com/generational-harm-of-pesticides-2596453994.html

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Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain from Knowing When to Stop Eating Identified

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I would be very interested to know what fats the mice were fed as this goes completely against the ketogenic diet.

I also find it interesting that the focus in the article is on how to find a drug that will solve it rather than what can we do to alter our diet and lifestyle to preent the problem. – Tom

Summary: Researchers report mice fed a high fat diet produce an enzyme called MMP-2, which results in leptin being blocked from binding to its receptors. This, they report, prevents neurons from signaling that the stomach is full. The study suggests blocking MMP-2 may help people with obesity to lose weight.

An international team of researchers has uncovered a destructive mechanism at the molecular level that causes a well-known phenomenon associated with obesity, called leptin resistance.

They found that mice fed a high-fat diet produce an enzyme named MMP-2 that clips receptors for the hormone leptin from the surface of neuronal cells in the hypothalamus. This blocks leptin from binding to its receptors. This in turn keeps the neurons from signaling that your stomach is full and you should stop eating.

This is the first time that a destructive molecular mechanism has been observed and described.

https://neurosciencenews.com/leptin-obesity-overeating-9739/