10 Things to Eliminate for Better Health

10 Things to Eliminate for Better Health

Eliminate These 10 Things for a Healthier Life

1.Linoleic acid — Linoleic acid is the primary fat found in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), including vegetable/seed oils, and accounts for about 80% of the fat composition of vegetable oils. Omega-6 fats must be balanced with omega-3 fats in order to not be harmful, but this isn't the case for most Americans. Most of the omega-6 people eat, including seed oils, has been damaged and oxidized through processing.

"Most of this linoleic acid, when it oxidizes, it develops lipid hydroperoxides and then these rapidly degenerate into … oxidized linoleic acid metabolites," says Dr. Chris Knobbe, an ophthalmologist and the founder and president of the Cure AMD Foundation.3 According to Knobbe, OXLAMs (oxidized linoleic acid metabolites) are:

• Cytotoxic and genotoxic
• Mutagenic
• Carcinogenic
• Atherogenic
• Thrombogenic

Metabolic dysfunction can also occur, while OXLAMs are toxic to the liver and are associated with inflammation, fibrosis and fatty liver disease in humans.4 Linoleic acid is found in virtually every processed food, including restaurant foods, sauces and salad dressings, so to eliminate it you'll need to eliminate most processed foods and restaurant foods from your diet — unless you can confirm that the chef only cooks with butter.

However, because animals are fed grains that are high in linoleic acid,5 it's also hidden in "healthy" foods like chicken and pork, which makes these meats a major source as well. Olive oil is another health food that can be a hidden source of linoleic acid, as it's often cut with cheaper seed oils.

2.Eating after dinner — The timing of your meals is nearly as important as the foods that make them up. Time restricted eating (TRE) is a simple powerful intervention that mimics the eating habits of our ancestors and restores your body to a more natural state that allows a whole host of metabolic benefits to occur.6

TRE involves limiting your eating window to six to eight hours per day instead of the more than 12-hour window most people use. Research shows, for instance, that TRE promotes insulin sensitivity and improves blood sugar management by increasing insulin-mediated glucose uptake rates,7 which is important for resolving Type 2 diabetes.

In another study, when 15 men at risk of Type 2 diabetes restricted their eating to even a nine-hour window, they lowered their mean fasting glucose, regardless of when the "eating window" commenced.8 Ideally, you'll want to stop eating for several hours before bedtime, then start your eating window in mid- to late morning after you wake up.

3.EMFs and cellphones — Most cellphones include a little-known warning that states to keep the phone a certain distance away from your body — usually 5 to 15 millimeters (mm) — to limit exposure to radiofrequency (RF) exposure to under the federal safety limit.9 If you carry your phone in your pocket or your bra, or hold it against your ear when you talk, you're violating this warning with unknown health consequences.

Devra Davis, Ph.D., founder and president of the Environmental Health Trust, has warned for years about the risks of cellphones in general but, in particular, about the risks to pregnant women and their unborn children, noting that prenatal animal studies have shown exposure to radiation from cellphones:10

• Altered DNA
• Altered brain metabolism
• Compromised spinal cords
• Affected learning abilities

Research conducted by the National Toxicology Program (NTP)11 also found "clear evidence" that exposure to cellphone radiation led to heart tumors in the male rats, along with "some evidence" that it caused brain and adrenal gland tumors in them.12

While most people won't want to eliminate their cellphone entirely, avoid carrying it on your body and keep it in airplane mode as much as possible. However, even in airplane mode it can still emit signals, which is why you should not sleep with it in your bedroom and should turn it off at night.

4.Artificial sweeteners — Consuming artificially sweetened foods and beverages leads to disruptions to metabolism13,14 and has been linked to increased appetite and cravings, as well as an increased risk of diabetes and other metabolic diseases.15,16

The artificial sweeteners acesulfame potassium and sucralose — brand name Splenda —may even interfere with your liver's detoxification process, as research found they inhibited the activity of P-glycoprotein (PGP), a "defense protein" that's important for protecting organisms against environmental toxins.17

Because PGP also plays a role in other body functions, including maintaining the blood-brain barrier, the researchers stressed the need for further research to determine how artificial sweeteners may be affecting other organs beyond the liver. A large-scale cohort study also found that people who consumed higher levels of artificial sweeteners, including aspartame, had higher risk of overall cancer compared to nonconsumers.18

Specifically, total cancer risks increased by 13% among artificial sweetener consumers, while the risk of breast cancer rose by 22% and the risk of obesity-related cancers increased up to 15%.19 In addition to their common usage in diet beverages and low-sugar snacks, be aware that artificial sweeteners are hidden in many products that might surprise you, including dairy products, ketchup, salad dressing, baked goods and medications.

5.Plastic food containers and bottles — If you're still storing your food in plastic containers or drinking from plastic bottles, switching to safe alternatives like glass, ceramic and stainless steel is a smart choice.

Microplastics, which are simply tiny pieces of plastic, are common in bottled water, for starters. When researchers with the department of chemistry at the State University of New York at Fredonia tested 259 bottles of water, they found microplastic contamination in 93% of them.20

It's unknown what health risks are posed by consuming these tiny plastic particles, but it is known that microplastics may act like sponges for contaminants including heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or pathogens, or could cause harm on a cellular or subcellular level.21

Plastics can also leach chemicals into your food and beverages. Phthalates are just one example of high-production volume chemicals used frequently as plasticizers in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other plastics, some of which are used in food packaging used by fast food and take-out restaurants. The risk may be even greater if you heat food in plastic or even let a plastic water bottle sit in the sun.

For instance, antimony, a toxic chemical used to manufacture polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics used for water bottles, is known to leach into water, and a study found that storing the bottles at higher temperatures increased the amount of leaching.22

6.Nonstick cookware — The convenience of a nonstick surface comes at a steep price, as chemicals used in their production persist in the environment, are contaminating water supplies and have been linked to developmental problems, cancer, liver damage, immune effects, thyroid problems and more.

Polyfluoroalkyl or perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFASs), which include PFOA and PFOS, are estimated to be in the blood of more than 98% of Americans.23 While production of PFOA ended in 2015, DuPont and other companies have substituted similar chemicals in the production of nonstick cookware.

In May 2015, more than 200 scientists from 40 countries signed the Madrid Statement, which warns about the harms of PFAS chemicals and documents the following potential health effects of exposure:24

Liver toxicity	Disruption of lipid metabolism, and the immune and endocrine systems
Adverse neurobehavioral effects	Neonatal toxicity and death
Tumors in multiple organ systems	Testicular and kidney cancers
Liver malfunction	Hypothyroidism
High cholesterol	Ulcerative colitis
Reduced birth weight and size	Obesity
Decreased immune response to vaccines	Reduced hormone levels and delayed puberty

Healthier options include ceramic and enameled cast iron cookware, both of which are durable, easy to clean and completely inert, which means they won't release any harmful chemicals into your home.

7.Antibacterial soaps and detergents — The excessive and liberal use of antimicrobial products like household and industrial disinfectants, hand sanitizers and other antibacterial cleaners is raising the risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment.

AMR has been declared one of the top 10 global public health threats to humanity,25 causing about 700,000 deaths globally every year.26 The use of antibacterial soap even causes shifts in the microbial composition of your skin, which could affect skin health.27

Antibacterial products may also contain triclosan, an antibacterial chemical and known endocrine disrupter. It's so widely used that it's estimated 75% of the U.S. population has been exposed, a concerning statistic since it is readily absorbed into human skin and oral mucosa, where it may affect immune responses, production of reactive oxygen species and cardiovascular functions.28 Reproductive and developmental effects have also been observed.

Unless you are in a hospital setting, avoid antibacterial soaps and detergents, including hand sanitizers and wipes, toothpaste, deodorants and laundry detergents.

8.Commercial cleaning products — Household cleaning products commonly release volatile organic compounds that may cause asthma and respiratory illnesses. One study found women who used chemical cleaning agents had accelerated decline in lung function, which may signal a risk to long-term respiratory health.29

Phthalates are also common in cleaning products, especially fragranced varieties. Studies show associations between exposure to phthalates in utero and the following health conditions:30

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	Other behavioral problems
Adverse cognitive development	Lower IQ
Poorer psychomotor development	Impaired social communication

The good news is that it's easy to replace chemical cleaners with a short list of basic ingredients, which can be used to make your own natural cleaning products:

Baking soda	White vinegar	Lemon juice
Hydrogen peroxide	Liquid castile soap	Organic essential oils (optional). Certain ones, including lavender and tea tree oil, have antibacterial qualities
Mixing bowls	Spray bottles	Microfiber cloths

9.Toxic personal care products — Personal care products often contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including phthalates and parabens, and toluene, a neurotoxicant. Very few chemicals on the market are tested for safety, but even those that aren't necessarily safe. Part of this is because safety testing is typically done on just one chemical at a time, and under laboratory conditions.

The way you're actually exposed to chemicals — in combination and under countless different real-world scenarios — may increase their toxicity exponentially. It's possible that use of personal care products and cosmetics may influence age at menopause,31 along with having a baby that's at increased risk of being small for gestational age.32

At least 11 chemicals and chemical families of concern have been uncovered that are commonly used in cosmetics. They include:33

Butylated hydroxyanisole/butylated hydroxytoluene Coal tar dyes	Diethanolamine	Formaldehyde releasing preservatives
Parabens	Phthalates	1,4 dioxane
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	Siloxanes	Talc/asbestos
Triclosan

To avoid exposure, simplify your routine and make your own personal care products using safe ingredients like coconut oil, mild soap and essential oils.

10.Your chair — Sitting is a pernicious negative influence on your health, as being sedentary for long periods of time each day appears to accelerate aging at the cellular level.34 Among close to 1,500 older women included in one study, those who sat the longest were, on average, eight years older, biologically speaking, than women who moved around more often.35

Separate research, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, further found that sitting for more than three hours a day caused 3.8% of all-cause deaths in the 54 countries surveyed.36

Cutting your sitting time to less than three hours a day could increase your life expectancy by 0.2 years, the researchers concluded. More than 60% of people globally spend more than three hours a day sitting,37 so "sit less, move more" is a motto worth repeating. A simple way to do this is to replace your desk chair with a standup desk and walk each day as much as possible.

Remember, while I encourage you to work your way through each item on this list, you don't have to eliminate them all overnight. With each toxic exposure you remove from your life, you'll enjoy better health and receive renewed motivation to keep going on your quest toward reaching optimal health.

 Sources and References

• 1 The Beet January 27, 2021
• 2 Mayo Clinic Proceedings April 1, 2016, Volume 91, Issue 4, P432-442
• 3 YouTube June 13, 2020
• 4 J Lipid Res. 2018 Sep; 59(9): 1597–1609
• 5 Journal of Dairy Science January 2018; 101(1): 222-232
• 6, 7 Science November 16, 2018; 362(6416): 770-775
• 8 Obesity April 19, 2019; 27(5)
• 9, 10 YouTube, CBC News March 24, 2017
• 11, 12 National Toxicology Program November 1, 2018
• 13 Curr Biol. 2017 Aug 2
• 14 Medicine Net August 11, 2017
• 15 Yale J Biol Med. 2010 Jun;83(2):101-8
• 16 Tech Times August 12, 2017
• 17 Sci Adv. 2016 Apr; 2(4): e1600001
• 18 PLOS Medicine March 24, 2022
• 19 UPI March 24, 2022
• 20 Front Chem. 2018; 6: 407
• 21 CNN December 5, 2018
• 22 Water Research February 2008, Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 551-556
• 23 Environ Health Perspect. 2007 Nov; 115(11): 1596–1602
• 24 Environ Health Perspect 123:A107–A111, Madrid Statement
• 25 WHO, Antimicrobial Resistance
• 26 Front Microbiol. 2020; 11: 1020
• 27 PLoS One. 2018; 13(8): e0199899
• 28 J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev. 2017; 20(8): 447–469
• 29 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine February 16, 2018
• 30 American Journal of Public Health page e2 February 18, 2021
• 31, 33 Fertil Steril. 2016 Sep 15; 106(4): 978–990
• 32 Sci Rep. 2019; 9: 8030
• 34, 35 American Journal of Epidemiology January 18, 2017
• 36 American Journal of Preventive Medicine March 2016
• 37 The New York Times March 29, 2016
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Five Reasons to Eat More Sweet Potatoes

Five Reasons to Eat More Sweet Potatoes: From cognitive protection to immune support here are five compelling reasons to incorporate sweet potatoes into your everyday diet:

1. Rich Nutrition Profile
One cup of cubed sweet potatoes provides the following:[ii]

Water -- 103 grams (g)

Energy -- 114 kilocalories (kcal)

Protein -- 2.09 g

Carbohydrate -- 26.9 g

Fiber -- 3.99 g

Sugar -- 5.56 g

Calcium -- 39.9 milligrams (mg)

Iron -- 0.811 mg

Potassium -- 448 mg

Phosphorus -- 62.5 mg

Sodium -- 73.2 mg

Vitamin C -- 3.19 mg

The orange and purple varieties are rich in antioxidants such as beta-carotene, chlorogenic acid and vitamin C.[iii],[iv] There's an abundance of colors of sweet potatoes worldwide, including white, yellow, orange and purple. In the American market, however, sweet potato typically has a deep-orange flesh color, a skin color of light to medium rose, copper or red, a sweet flavor and moist texture.[v]

2. Enhanced Memory and Cognitive Health
A 2013 study found that a purple sweet potato extract rich in caffeoylquinic acids led to a neuroprotective effect on the brain of animal models, potentially helping improve spatial learning and memory.[vi]

Purple sweet potato color comes from a class of naturally occurring anthocyanins that have strong antioxidant and neuroprotective activity.[vii] In animal subjects, it showed great promise in improving cognitive function. In further animal studies, purple sweet potatoes were shown to protect the brain by reducing inflammation.[viii]

3. Immune Support
Sweet potatoes with orange flesh are among the best natural sources of beta-carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in the body.[ix]

Vitamin A is critical to a healthy immune system. "It is not surprising that vitamin A deficiency is associated with impaired intestinal immune responses and increased mortality associated with gastrointestinal and respiratory infections," researchers wrote in Nature Reviews Immunology.[x]

Purple sweet potatoes are also of particular interest in immune support, with polysaccharides including water-soluble polysaccharide, dilute alkali-soluble polysaccharide and concentrated alkali-soluble polysaccharide (CASP) evaluated for immune-enhancing effects.[xi]

All three polysaccharides evaluated were found to stimulate immune responses of macrophages as well as positively regulate the subjects' adaptive immunity by enhancing immunoglobulin production. Separate research also indicates that purple sweet potato extract may address immune dysfunction by mobilizing antioxidant defenses.[xii]

4. Anticancer Potential
Anthocyanins, a group of antioxidants found in sweet potatoes, have been widely evaluated for their anticancer properties, particularly against colorectal, colon, bladder, breast and gastric cancers.[xiii],[xiv],[xv],[xvi]

Against colorectal cancer, sweet potatoes may induce cell-cycle arrest, antiproliferative and apoptotic, or cell death, mechanisms. In bladder cancer, sweet potato anthocyanins had an antitumor effect. Taiwanese purple-fleshed sweet potatoes, too, were found to have anticancer activities through their ability to inhibit the growth of cancer cell lines such as breast cancer, gastric cancer and colon adenocarcinoma.

Even sweet potato peel, usually discarded as waste, contains constituents that may help prevent various types of cancer from developing.[xvii]

5. Diabetes Control and Prevention
Anthocyanins can also serve as a functional food for diabetes. Antioxidants in general have been found to reduce oxidative stress due to hyperglycemia, and anthocyanins from purple sweet potatoes positively affected liver and renal activity as well as blood pressure in diabetic animal models.[xviii]

This class of antioxidants, found in purple sweet potato, also had beneficial effects on diabetes-induced endothelial dysfunction in animal subjects.[xix] You can learn more about sweet potatoes and their health benefits through studies on the GreenMedInfo.com database.

How to Clean Your Arteries With One Simple Fruit

How to Clean Your Arteries With One Simple Fruit: The future of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment will not be found in your medicine cabinet, rather in your kitchen cupboard or in your back yard growing on a tree...

How can something as benign and commonplace as a fruit extract reverse so many aspects of coronary artery disease, simultaneously, as evidenced by the study above? The answer may lie in the fact that our ancestors co-evolved with certain foods (fruits in particular) for so long that a lack of adequate quantities of these foods may directly result in deteriorating organ function. Indeed, two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling argued that vitamin C deficiency is a fundamental cause of cardiovascular disease, owing to the fact that our hominid primate ancestors once had year-round access to fruits, and as a result lost the ability to synthesize it.

There's another obvious clue as to how pomegranate may work its artery opening magic. Anyone who has ever tasted pomegranate, or consumed the juice, knows it has a remarkable astringency, giving your mouth and gums that dry, puckering mouth feel. This cleansing sensation is technically caused, as with all astringents, by shrinking and disinfecting your mucous membranes. Anyone who drinks pomegranate juice, or is lucky enough to eat one fresh, can understand why it is so effective at cleansing the circulatory system. Nature certainly planted enough poetic visual clues there for us: its juice looks like blood, and it does resemble a multi-chambered heart, at least when you consider its appearance in comparison to most other fruits.

Published in Clinical Nutrition in 2004 and titled, "Pomegranate juice consumption for 3 years by patients with carotid artery stenosis reduces common carotid intima-media thickness, blood pressure and LDL oxidation," Israeli researchers discovered pomegranate, administered in juice form over the course of a year, reversed plaque accumulation in the carotid arteries of patients with severe, though symptomless, carotid artery stenosis (defined as 70--90% blockage in the internal carotid arteries).

The study consisted of nineteen patients, 5 women and 14 men, aged 65-75, non-smokers. They were randomized to receive either pomegranate juice or placebo. Ten patients were in the pomegranate juice treatment group and 9 patients that did not consume pomegranate juice were in the control group. Both groups were matched with similar blood lipid and glucose concentrations, blood pressure, and with similar medication regimens which consisted of blood-pressure lowering (e.g. ACE inhibitors, β-blockers, or calcium channel blockers) and lipid lowering drugs (e.g. statins).

The ten patients in the treatment group group received 8.11 ounces (240 ml) of pomegranate juice per day, for a period of 1 year, and five out of them agreed to continue for up to 3 years.

You can only imagine what would happen if a pharmaceutical drug was shown to reverse plaque build up in the carotid arteries by 13% in just 3 months! This drug would be lauded the life-saving miracle drug, and not only would be promoted and sold successfully as a multibillion dollar blockbuster, but discussion would inevitably follow as to why it should be mandated.

While these results are impressive, if not altogether groundbreaking for the field of cardiology, they may be even better than revealed in the stated therapeutic outcomes above. When one factors in that the carotid artery stenosis increased 9% within 1 year in the control group, the pomegranate intervention group may have seen even better results than indicated by the measured regression in intima media thickness alone. That is, if we assume that the pomegranate group had received no treatment, the thickening of their carotid arteries would have continued to progress like the control group at a rate of 9% a year, i.e. 18% within 2 years, 27% within 3 years. This could be interpreted to mean that after 3 years of pomegranate treatment, for instance, the thickening of the arteries would have been reduced over 60% beyond what would have occurred had the natural progression of the disease been allowed to continue unabated.

what's a conflict of interest, and why should I care?

Who Funds the FNIH?

Then there are the donors. The largest donor to the FNIH is none other than Bill Gates. According to the FNIH’s 2020 statutory report,8 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $96,981,262 that year, accounting for 15% of the Foundation’s annual revenue.9

In 2019, the Gates Foundation’s contribution of $49,827,480 accounted for 35% of the annual revenue.10,11,12 As the top donor, it’s not farfetched to assume Gates might have significant leverage over the direction of the foundation and its funds. GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Wellcome also donated between $5 million and $10 million each in 2020.13 FNIH programs funded by the Gates Foundation include but are not limited to:

• Combining Epitope Based Vaccine Design with Informatics-Based Evaluation
• Comprehensive Cellular Vaccine Immune Monitoring Consortium
• Global collaborative for Coordination of Gene Drive Research and Development
• The Partnership to Accelerate Novel TB Regimens
• mRNA encoded HIV Env-Gag Virus-like-particle Vaccines

The last program on the list — the creation of novel mRNA-based HIV vaccines — is described14 as a project to “test a new HIV vaccine concept in animals using noninfectious ‘virus-like particles’ encoded by an RNA vaccine with the goal of inducing protective antibody responses.”

The initial request for collaboration came from the NIAID at the end of July 2020. In August 2020, the FNIH Portfolio Oversight Committee approved the project, “contingent upon a commitment of full funding in the amount of $1.45 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”

The Gates Foundation fulfilled that commitment in October 2020. A memorandum of understanding between the FNIH and the NIAID was finalized in early 2021. A sub-award was granted to the University of Montreal (CHUM), and Bioqual was given a service agreement to manage the clinical trial.

Bill Gates also contributes to the FNIH through Gates Ventures,15 a rapidly growing venture capital and investment firm that works side by side with the Gates Foundation’s program teams “to identify investment opportunities.”16 Specifically, Gates Ventures is an organizational donor to the FNIH’s Biomarkers Consortium (BC), a cancer steering committee, alongside a long list of drug companies.

Congress Seeks Greater Transparency

As mentioned earlier, all of this can help explain Fauci’s and Collins’ behavior during the COVID pandemic. Collins is a board member, Fauci got the foundation’s top reward for support in 2020, and money flows into the foundation from drug companies and Gates, all of whom have vested interests in making sure that whatever the NIH does and recommends to the public, it will produce profits for them.

According to its 2020 Statutory Report,17 the FNIH has raised more than $1.2 billion, and as mentioned earlier, most of that money goes right back to the drug industry, without Congressional appropriation or oversight. While the whole thing reeks of conflicts of interest, it may be difficult to get to the bottom of because, as a 501c3, the FNIH is cleverly exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Nonprofits are considered private entities, and therefore not subject to FOIA and other open records laws.18,19 However, the NIH is subject to FOIA since it’s a government agency, and the funds raised go to the NIH. Basically, it’s a system set up to bypass oversight, and the U.S. Congress is responsible for creating this fraud-fraught system.

Congress Created This Fraud-Fraught System

Congress is responsible for the oversight of federal agencies, but in the early 1990s, it created what sure looks like a pay-to-play system. Not only did Congress create the FNIH, they also set up the CDC Foundation,20 which funnels millions of dollars from drug companies and vaccine makers into the CDC.21

This explains the CDC’s highly irrational and harmful COVID recommendations. The fact that the CDC lies about its pharma funding only makes it all the more suspicious. The CDC has long fostered the perception of independence by stating it does not accept funding from special interests.

In disclaimers peppered throughout the CDC’s website22 and in its publications, it says the agency “does not accept commercial support” and has “no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products.” With the information exposed in this article it is obvious that this is a cleverly obfuscated pack of lies — all possible through sheer semantics, as the funds are diverted through the foundation rather than going straight to the CDC.

In 2019, several watchdog groups — including the U.S. Right to Know (USRTK), Public Citizen, Knowledge Ecology International, Liberty Coalition and the Project on Government Oversight — petitioned23 the CDC to stop making these false disclaimers24 because, in reality, the CDC receives millions of dollars each year from commercial interests through its government-chartered foundation, the CDC Foundation, which funnels those contributions to the CDC after deducting a fee.25

On the CDC Foundation’s website, you’ll find a long list26 of “corporate partners” that have provided the CDC with funding over the years. The CDC even accepts money earmarked for specific studies or programs aimed at expanding corporate profits or reducing drug companies’ liability exposure.27

As just one example, in 2018, Collins ended up canceling a $100 million study to assess the effects of moderate alcohol consumption after it was discovered that the NIH had inappropriately solicited money for the study directly from the spirits industry, and had designed the study “to satisfy industry interests.”28 Collins also had to ditch a $400 million study into opioid dependency after an independent panel warned there were potential conflicts of interest.29

In 2018, a congressional spending panel also warned the FNIH and the CDC Foundation that their disclosures of financial donations were inadequate. As reported by Science at the end of June 2018:30

“Congress created the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the CDC Foundation ... to raise private funds to support federal biomedical and health research.

It hoped to encourage transparency and prevent potential conflicts of interest by specifying in the law that the foundations had to report ‘the source and amount of all gifts’ they receive, as well as any restrictions on how the donations could be used.

But last week, legislators on the House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee that oversees NIH and CDC expressed concern that the foundations may not be following those disclosure rules ...

A report accompanying a 2019 spending bill moving through Congress reminds the foundations to abide by the PHSA when writing their annual reports ... The lawmakers also say it's not OK to hide the identity of donors who have attached strings to their gift by labeling them as ‘anonymous.’

The language ‘is a marker that we want more transparency,’ says one House appropriations staffer, speaking on background because of committee rules on who can speak to the press. ‘We'd like to see [the foundations] go further, and this language is meant to start a conversation.’"

Among “anonymous” donors to the FNIH in 2016 were the Gates Foundation, despite having given a sizeable $19.1 million grant.31 While the financial statements of these foundations may have improved since 2018, the system itself, which gives private industry the power to influence regulatory agencies through unregulated funding, remains unchanged.

Globalists Aim to Take Over Health Systems Worldwide

The reason for having a BlackRock representative on the FNIH’s board of directors could potentially have something to do with the globalists’ plan to monopolize health systems worldwide — a plan that is taking shape as we speak.

In June 2021, Gerberding, now head of the FNIH, wrote a Time article32 laying out the framework for an international pandemic-surveillance network, which would include threat prediction and preemption as well. While Gerberding did not name the World Health Organization, we now know that’s the organization designated as the top-down ruler, not only of all things related to pandemics but also health in general. I’ll have an entire article detailing this in tomorrow’s newsletter.

It’s important to realize that unless we can somehow prevent the WHO from acquiring this power, it will be able to dictate things like mandatory vaccinations and health passports moving forward, and its dictates would supersede all national and state laws. We simply cannot let this happen.

At the same time, we need to realize just how bought and paid for our U.S. regulatory agencies are, and figure out a way to clean up that mess. There’s been a revolving door between government and private industry for decades, which is how we got here in the first place. Closing that door might be a first step in the right direction, but it’s not going to be enough by itself.

The NIH, CDC and the Food and Drug Administration are all so thoroughly infiltrated by industry, restoring them to their intended functions is no easy task. Disturbingly, the same technocratic powers that are working to give the WHO global power over global health have also infiltrated these U.S. agencies. As a result, they’re unlikely to push back. They’re going to be more than willing to take orders from the WHO.

 
 

- Sources and References

• 1 FNIH.org
• 2 NIH.gov December 16, 2021
• 3 Leading Authorities Freda Lewis-Hall interviews Anthony Fauci
• 4 FNIH Charles Sanders
• 5 Merck Julie Gerberding Bio
• 6 FNIH Announcement March 1, 2022
• 7 The Conversation May 10, 2017
• 8, 17 FNIH 2020 Statutory Report
• 9 FNIH Financial Statements 2019 and 2020, Page 23
• 10 FNIH 2020 Statutory Report, Page 23
• 11 FNIH Financial Statements 2019 and 2020
• 12 FNIH 2020 Annual Report, Financial Highlights
• 13 FNIH 2020 Annual Report Donations by Amount
• 14 FNIH 2020 Statutory Report, Page 5
• 15 Gates Ventures
• 16 Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund
• 18 Legal Beagle Is 501c3 Exempt from the Sunshine Law?
• 19 Nonprofit Quarterly May 30, 2017
• 20, 28, 29, 30, 31 Science June 29, 2018
• 21 Lew Rockwell November 20, 2019
• 22 CDC.gov MMWR Disclosure
• 23 USRTK Petition to the CDC, November 5, 2019 (PDF)
• 24 USRTK November 5, 2019
• 25 USRTK Petition to the CDC, November 5, 2019 (PDF), Page 3
• 26 CDC Foundation Our Partners: Corporations
• 27 USRTK Petition to the CDC, November 5, 2019 (PDF), Page 4
• 32 Time June 9, 2021

• In a $1 billion, taxpayer-funded media campaign, the U.S. government made direct payments to all major media outlets in an effort to push ads for COVID shots on the public. Meanwhile, the same news outlets literally gushed with positive coverage on the shots.

  The expenditures were disclosed after The Blaze filed a Freedom of Information Act request from Department of Health and Human Services.

  “The Biden administration purchased ads on TV, radio, in print and on social media to build vaccine confidence, timing this effort with the increasing availability of the vaccines,” The Blaze said. “The government also relied on earned media featuring ‘influencers’ from ‘communities hit hard by COVID-19’ and ‘experts’ like White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and other academics to be interviewed and promote vaccination in the news.”

   

  SOURCES:

  The Defender March 9, 2022

  The Blaze March 3, 2022

Re: Interview Series Tonight on Planning Sustainable, Green, and Resilient Cities

Yes this would better in your Patel auditorium, but we could also do it in the conference room. What we need to do "round table discussion" in St. Pete, live on zoom with audience questions …

I can do it here for sure, USFSP has a bunch of cool spaces we could use, and the new sustainability officer here took my place there!

Miss you guys, god bless you.

Oh check this out from Rick Martinez:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/491938/9187077-community-supported-agriculture-a-farmer-s-perspective

God Bless You,

dr.Rafé 

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Tonight at 6pm the USF Student Planning Organization is hosting a webinar about Planning Sustainable and Resilient Cities and yours truly will be one of the speakers. See info below!

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Sean Baraoidan MURP, EcoDistricts AP, LEED Green Associate, Fitwel Ambassador

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and healthy places where we live, work, learn and play.

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From: Fatima Elkott <elkottf@usf.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 10:57 AM
Subject: Interview Series Tonight on Planning Sustainable, Green, and Resilient Cities
To: Sean Baraoidan <sean@realbuildingconsultants.com>

Join us for another interview series happening tonight, Friday, March 4^th at 6PM! 

We will be joined by Dr. Alan Bush and Mr. Sean Baraoidan for a discussion on how we can work to create cities that can survive climate change, provide opportunities, and create livable spaces for all while incorporating sustainable design. 

You can scan the QR code or click here to register. If you have any questions/topics for our speakers that you would like us to focus on, please let us know via our form: bit.ly/sposustainability.

 See you there!

Fatima Elkott

Graduate Assistant

School of Public Affairs

University of South Florida

Tampa campus

President of the Student Planning Organization

https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/SPOUSF/club_signup

elkottf@usf.edu

(813) 502-8542

spa.usf.edu

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