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Title: Teens Discover Seed That Naturally Cleanses Polluted Water
Post by: BADecker on August 15, 2016, 08:42:21 PM
Teens Discover Seed That Naturally Cleanses Polluted Water (http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/202003-2016-08-15-teens-discover-seed-that-naturally-cleanses-polluted-water.htm)


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The millennial generation might have a bad reputation, but there are plenty of inspiring, motivated, and intelligent young kids and teenagers out there making great strides to help humanity.

A couple teenagers worth paying attention to are João Gabriel, 15, and Letícia Pereira, 18, who recently won the Latin America Google Science fair award. GoodNewsNetwork reports that the teens wanted to help supply clean water to regions in need, therefore, took steps to prove that the seeds of the moringa oleifera tree can filter contaminated water, remove impurities, and even make water drinkable again.

The idea was to develop an easy way for people to remove pollution from water without using chemicals, and they succeeded!

In case you don't know, moringa is probably the most impressive plant to exist. Dr. Mercola relays that the leaf of the plant has 9 times the protein of yogurt, 10 times the vitamin A of carrots, 17 times the calcium of milk, 25 times the iron of spinach, and 12 times the vitamin C of oranges. In addition, it boasts an incredible amount of antioxidants, balances blood sugar, reduces inflammation, and both the leaves and seeds help prevent arsenic toxicity. Most people consume the leaves of moringa ground up and in drinks such as smoothies made with whole, fresh fruit, leafy greens, and a plant-based milk.


Read more at http://www.trueactivist.com/teens-discover-seed-that-naturally-cleanses-polluted-water/. (http://www.trueactivist.com/teens-discover-seed-that-naturally-cleanses-polluted-water/)


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Title: Re: Teens Discover Seed That Naturally Cleanses Polluted Water
Post by: protokol on August 16, 2016, 01:08:42 AM
This is cool but there's no, um, magic involved. They didn't discover the seeds and they don't have any special cleansing properties. The idea the kids had was to construct biodegradable water filters out of the seeds.

Also I don't think Dr. Mercola is a real doctor...

Greek yogurt - 10 g protein/100 g
Oranges - 53.2 mg vitamin C/100g
Spinach - 2.7 mg iron/100g
Milk - 120 mg calcium/100g

Moringa oleifera leaf, raw/100g:
9.4 g protein (less)
51.7 mg vitamin C (less)
4 mg iron (nearly 2x more)
185 mg calcium (about 1.5 times more)

Here we have a classic journalistic tactic where a legitimate story is tweaked to adhere to the "healthy, green agenda" (because that shit sells like hot cakes at the moment). Chuck in some downright lies from a fake doctor, along with some buzzwords like "no chemicals" and "antioxidants", and hooray your site gets traffic and you get paid!

Who cares if the article's full of lies and spin, 99% of your target audience won't bother checking!


Title: Re: Teens Discover Seed That Naturally Cleanses Polluted Water
Post by: BADecker on August 16, 2016, 05:50:11 AM
Close to 200 articles with information about moringa listed here http://www.naturalnews.com/SearchResults.asp?pr=NN&query=moringa.

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