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During his press conference last week, the sheriff listed 15 apps as ones that parents need to know about. (Six of them were used by suspected predators who were recently arrested.)

The first is ‘MeetMe,’ an app where teens can easily be in contact with users much older than them, with an emphasis on dating.
‘WhatsApp’ and ‘SnapChat’ are for messaging, but what you should know is teens can send unlimited messages, have video chats and even share their live location with other users, people they may not even know.
‘Skout’ is a flirting app that’s used to meet and chat with new people. Teens and adults are in different groups, but ages aren’t verified.
‘TikTok’ is used for sharing user created videos that can contain bad words, even adult content.
‘Badoo’ and ‘Bumble’ are dating apps for adults, but teens can still find ways to join.
‘Grindr’ is geared towards the LGBTQ community. It allows users to share photos and meet up based on phone’s GPS location.
‘Kik’ is specifically for kids, but anyone can join and anyone can contact or direct message your child.
‘LiveMe’ is a live streaming app, but you don’t know who’s watching and your kids location is revealed.
‘Holla’ is all about connecting strangers around the world through video chat. Enough said.
‘Whisper’ is a social confessional where kids can remain anonymous, but still share their feelings. And it can reveal your child’s location for a meet up.
‘ASKfm’ encourages people to allow anonymous users to ask them questions, which opens the door for online bullying.
‘Hot or Not’ rates users on attractiveness.. There’s no age verification and users can send each other messages.
And lastly, ‘Calculator%’ apps are several secret apps that allows kids to hide their photos, videos, even browser history.

https://www.khou.com/article/tech/15-apps-you-should-look-out-for/285-5ee3b9f5-0fac-4ee6-ac92-097c82090013

New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression.

Tom: It is getting to the point where an over simplified bet VERY safe solution would be, “If your great grandmother wouldn’t recognis it, don’t eat it!”

That would leave you without a whole bunch of good foods unkown to her but also without most of the poisons we unknowingly ingest!

https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/food-cooking/america-s-most-widely-consumed-oil-causes-genetic-changes-in-the-brain/

Easy rego number check to see if your airbag is faulty.

https://ismyairbagsafe.com.au/

What WiFi does to cress. Imagine what it does to your brain? Imagine what it will do to our food supply when the far more powerful 5G is rolled out across the panet?

https://www.drfarrahmd.com/2018/08/a-biology-experiment-by-9th-grade.html

If you find yourself forgetting more than usual, or you sometimes feel like your mind is not as sharp as it once was, you might want to take a look inside your medicine cabinet.

Older people in particular are being advised to avoid some common over-the-counter medications, as evidence piles up of their connection to thinking problems and memory loss.

A study by the Indiana University School of Medicine, published in JAMA Neurology, used brain scans to explore the impact of some common medications on brain metabolism and atrophy in 451 participants. Among this group, 60 people were taking one or more medications that have medium or high anticholinergic activity.

To reach their conclusions, the researchers used PETs to measure brain metabolism, MRIs to scan brain structure, and a series of cognitive and memory tests.

They found that those patients who were taking the anticholinergic drugs registered worse performances on the tests than older patients who did not take this type of drug. Some of the areas where performance declines were noted included planning, verbal reasoning, short-term memory and problem solving.

Perhaps even more alarmingly, the MRIs showed that those who took the drugs had smaller brain volume and bigger ventricles.

In addition, they had lower levels of glucose metabolism in their brains in general, and in the hippocampus in particular, which is the area of the brain responsible for memory, and is commonly affected in the early stages of Alzheimer’s.

https://www.naturalnews.com/053787_OTC_medication_cognitive_impairment_brain_shrinkage.html