Media Narrative Falling Apart: Only 10% of ‘March for Our Lives’ Protesters Were Teens

 

By The Daily Sheeple | 

Despite the mainstream media’s unending fixation on the “March for our Lives” protests, their narrative is beginning to crumble.  The media is giving the wrong impression about who made up the march last weekend and one researcher has done the survey to prove it.

It’s not a big surprise the media spins everything in favor of their agenda. They have used propaganda to brainwash the masses for years and this is just one more little bit of evidence that should erode their credibility further. On;y about 10% of those who marched in the “March for our Lives” were actually teenagers.

“My research tells a different story about who participated in the March for Our Lives — and it is more complicated and less well-packaged for prime time,” University of Maryland sociology professor Dana R. Fisher wrote in a Wednesday story for the Washington Post.

The students did not pull this off on their own either, as the media is leading everyone to believe.

With the help of some well-resourced benefactors, including Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney, the survivors organized an extraordinary rally in D.C. and sister marches around the country in a mere six weeks.

However, the young faces of the advocates have created an assumption that “youth” and “students” are the core of the movement. My research tells a different story about who participated in the March for Our Lives — and it is more complicated and less well-packaged for prime time. –Washington Post

While the media focuses solely on teenagers, the data tells a vastly different story. Approximately, 90 percent of the crowd was actually adults.

Fisher said that during the March for Our Lives, her team sampled 256 people who were randomly selected (about every fifth person according to her account). This gave the team the chance to provide evidence about who attended the March for Our Lives and why. The average age of adults in the crowd was just under 49. So far, the data set includes surveys collected from 1,745 protest participants.

Like previous gun-control marches, the March for Our Lives was also mostly women. Whereas the 2017 Women’s March was 85 percent, women, the March for Our Lives was 70 percent women.

Even more interesting was that the new protesters (those who hadn’t protested before) were not motivated by the issue of gun control. In fact, only 12 percent of the people who were new to protesting reported that they were motivated to join the march because of the gun-control issue, compared with 60 percent of the participants with experience protesting.  They claim to be protesting wars and Donald Trump in general.

Some, Fisher said, came for entertainment. The march offered a free concert which was done to draw a bigger crowd and many didn’t actually care much about the reason the march was even organized.

Unsurprisingly, 79 percent of those marching identified as “left-leaning” and 89 percent reported voting for Hillary Clinton.

It sure seems like marches are being organized just so people can publicly announce their offense at something and the media can blow it out of proportion.  Propaganda is a fascinating tool to control the public.

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Heroes You Should Know: Brave Texas Teens Save Over 50 People In Small Fishing Boat

In their neighbors’ time of need, these teens stepped up.


ByAMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO  August 29, 2017

Hurricane Harvey hit Texas on Saturday, taking lives and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. Once the storm downgraded to Tropical Storm Harvey, even more damage was done, bringing in unprecedented flooding and raising the death toll to eight, a number expected to rise. In Houston alone, an estimated 30,000 will be forced to flee their homes and seek shelter; 450,000 others will require some sort of disaster assistance.

But, in response, the resilient and courageous people of Texas have sprung into action. The state has witnessed inspiring examples of heroism and unity from its citizenry — including teenage boys with nothing more than a small fishing boat and a paddle board.

Seventeen-year-old Thomas Edwards and his three friends, Richard Dickason, 17, Liam Connor, 17, and his brother Declan Connor, 15, were some of those heroes. The boys, all high school students at Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston, spent hours rescuing stranded Texans in a small fishing boat. Edwards estimates the crew saved over 50 people, not to mention numerous pets.

Edwards told The Daily Wire that he woke up to find the massive flooding; his truck was nearly completely submerged and one-story houses all around him had water all the way up to their doors. Instead of feeling fear or sorry for himself (as any typical 17-year-old might feel after they see their truck under water), Edwards and his pals took this hardship as a cue to help others.

The day before the storm, the boys picked up Declan’s fishing boat from Galveston, Texas. This was the perfect vehicle to save some folks.

“Once the boat began to float on the trailer we decided to venture out,” Edwards told The Daily Wire. “We could hear people screaming for help and we towed a paddle board behind us so we could fit more people on the boat. We began to pick people up and take them to a local Krogers, where other evacuees sought refuge. We were the only boat in the neighborhood until 2 o’clock, and we motored back and forth making trips to rescue as many people as we could.”

The boys began working in collaboration with local firefighters, police officers, and rescue workers, saving at least 50 people, said Edwards. “Neighbors would tell us addresses or point in directions to where they heard people yelling from,” he recalled.

“We rescued families, babies, dogs, rabbits, you name it,” explained the 17-year-old. “My friend Liam and I would stay on the paddle board and pull the boat across the intersection in order to unload people closer to the Kroger parking lot. It was an incredibly surreal experience to take a boat down streets while trying to dodge sunken cars and overhanging tree limbs.”

Read more at DAILYWIRE

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3 US Million Teens Per Year Suffer with Depression

The Center for Mental Health Services at the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released a report citing that 3 million teens in the United States suffer from depression each year.

The number of 12- to 17-year-olds suffering from depressive episodes has been steadily increasing in the past few years. The overall rate of depression amongst teens has jumped from 9.9 percent between 2013 to 2014 to over 11 percent the following year.

According to the report, the state with the highest rate of depressive episodes amongst teens was Oregon, where an average of 14.6 percent of teens were affected. In contract, the District of Columbia only saw 8.7 percent of teens suffering from depression, which is the lowest in the nation.

Paolo del Vecchio, Director of SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services said of the study:

“Adolescence is a critical time in a person’s development, and battling with depression can be devastating for teens unless they receive effective treatment. Effective treatment is available, but parents, teachers and all concerned members of the community must work to assure that adolescents in need get help.”

As of 2014, 1 in 9 adolescents in the US were receiving care to combat trouble sleeping, lack of concentration, lost interest in activities, and plummeting self-esteem among other symptoms.

Teens who are depressed typically lose interest in activities they once enjoyed, and typically lasts longer than two weeks. They may also struggle with low self-esteem and have trouble concentrating and sleeping. Some teens may also either stop eating as much as they normally do due to their feelings of depression, or begin to eat in excessive amounts in order to find comfort. They may also talk or move slowly, sleep more than normal, complain of excessive fatigue or have trouble remembering things. Teens with depression may also report feelings of sadness, emptiness, anger, numbness or worthlessness.

Aside from Oregon, other states with higher instances of depression included:

• Rhode Island


• Virginia


• Maine


• Utah


• Washington State


• Wisconsin


• Arizona


• Indiana

Many states in the southern United States recorded very low instances of depression, in addition to several other states. These states include:

• Alaska


• Connecticut


• Georgia


• Hawaii


• Kentucky


• New Mexico


• North Dakota


• South Dakota


• Tennessee

It is recommended that if you or someone you know is suffering from depression to seek advice from your GP. You can also phone the National Institute of Mental Health’s 24-hour helpline for free professional service at 1-800-273-8255.

Sources:

The Daily Mail

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Replace Junk Food Snacks with This FATTY Snack to Lose Weight?

The simple decision to toss back a handful of peanuts a few times a week in place of other junk food snacks could go a long way to help people fight the battle of the bulge and could prevent childhood obesity, researchers say.

Peanuts are packed with vitamins and nutrients that make the tiny legumes one of the healthiest foods around. Look at the nutritional punch you get from just a 1/4 cup:

• 88% biotin


• 47% copper


• 36% manganese


• 28% vitamin B3


• 24% molybdenum


• 22% folate


• 20% phosphorus


• 20% vitamin E


• 19% vitamin B1


• 19% protein

Peanuts are rich in heart-healthy monounsaturated fats, high in oleic acid, and loaded with antioxidants, too. In fact, previous research found that consuming more nuts was associated with decreased overall disease mortality.

But continuing with the original study at hand …

According to scientists, eating peanuts 3 to 4 times a week could help lower body mass index (BMI). That could be especially good news for children and teens with developing bodies. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics show obesity affects about 12.7 million children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 19. (The only problem is that BMI is a bit antiquated.)

For the study researchers at the University of Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Woman’s University followed 257 Latino adolescents over the course of 6 months. Each was in the 85th percentile or greater for BMI.

Source: CDC

During the study period, about half the group snacked on peanuts or peanut butter right after school 3 to 4 times a week. The other half of the group had the same snack less than once a week. All of the students were taught proper nutrition and engaged in physical activity.

The group eating the most peanuts during that time reduced their BMI more than twice as much as the group eating peanuts less than once a week.

“Peanuts provided an acceptable, healthy snack for children. Although peanuts were relatively high in fat, the weight loss intervention of replacing energy-dense and unhealthy snacks with peanuts and peanut butter helped children maintain a healthy body weight.”

Lead study author Craig Johnston, assistant professor at the University of Houston’s department of health and human performance, said in a statement:

“Schools are doing a great job of teaching kids, getting them workforce ready, and a whole bunch of other things. We’ve just got to make sure that our kids are going to live long, happy lives with that kind of education.”

Snacking is more common among teenagers, who are usually left to their own devices in the food department, and that can lead to serious weight gain.

Johnston said:

“What we found is that kids get home from school around 4 p.m. There’s less supervision by parents and less structure. Kids are sitting down at the TV and eating, eating, eating because they really didn’t eat at school.”

The researchers recommend schools cut out energy-dense unhealthy snacks and replace them with healthier ones like peanuts to get kids in the habit of eating nutritious foods in proper serving sizes.

Johnson said obesity “is the most pressing health issue facing us today We’d like to think it’s preventable, but from where I sit right now, there hasn’t been a lot shown to be very effective on a large scale.”

As snacks go, peanuts have been shown to be more universally liked than “health foods” like vegetables, and the protein found in peanuts can help kids feel full longer.

The study was published in the Journal of Applied Research on Children.

Sources:

Medical Daily

Newser

CDC

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Diabetes is on the Rise Among Tweens and Teens

Type 2 diabetes was once considered an old person’s disease; but as more Americans became obese, younger adults started developing the condition. Now type 2 diabetes is striking a growing number of kids. Data from the CDC show that about 17% of kids and teens in the U.S. are now considered obese, and a new study indicates that there has been a corresponding increase in childhood cases of type 2 diabetes. [1]

In the past, type 2 diabetes was referred to as adult-onset diabetes because the condition would take years to develop. These days, even toddlers are being diagnosed with the disease.

Scientists recently reviewed data on 10- to 19-year-olds in primarily five states – California, Colorado, Ohio, South Carolina, and Washington – and determined that 12.5 of every 100,000 of them had full-blown type 2 diabetes in 2011 and 2012. In 2002 and 2003, just 9 out of every 100,000 kids had the disease. [1]

Read: Number of Children with Diabetes Jumps 14% Between 2000-2008

After accounting for age, gender, race, and ethnicity, the authors of the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the incidence of type 2 diabetes in this age group rose by 4.8% during the study period. That means that about 1,500 more kids and teens were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes each year at the end of the study period compared with the beginning. [1]

Gaps in Gender and Ethnicity

The rate of new diagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes rose most sharply in this age group among Native Americans (8.9%), Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders (8.5%), and non-Hispanic blacks (6.3%). [2]

Among Hispanics ages 10 to 19, the rate of new diagnosed cases increased 3.1%. The smallest increase was seen in whites (0.6%).

The rate of new diagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes increased much more significantly in females (6.2%) than in males (3.7%).

Source: Los Angeles Times

Barbara Linder, M.D., Ph.D., senior advisor for childhood diabetes research at NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, said:

“These findings lead to many more questions. The differences among racial and ethnic groups and between genders raise many questions. We need to understand why the increase in rates of diabetes development varies so greatly and is so concentrated in specific racial and ethnic groups.” [2]

Tweens and Teens Affected Equally

In 2003, slightly more teens than tweens had type 2 diabetes, with 10 cases of type 2 diabetes per 100,000 teens (ages 15-19) compared with 8 cases per 100,000 among tweens (ages 10-14). However, by 2012, there were 12.9 cases per 100,000 in teens and 12.1 per 100,000 among tweens. [1]

Years of Life Lost

The complications of type 2 diabetes are many, but generally include heart and blood vessel disease; nerve damage (neuropathy); kidney damage, sometimes leading to the need for dialysis or transplant; eye damage; foot damage, often leading to infection and amputation; hearing loss; skin conditions; and possibly Alzheimer’s disease. [3]

The longer diabetes goes untreated, the more damage it does to the body. This is especially concerning among young people, whose lives may be shortened.

The number of years people lived with diabetes-related disabilities rose globally by nearly 33% between 2005 and 2015, according to a report published in 2016 in The Lancet. Conversely, the number of years of life lost to type 2 diabetes increased more than 25%. [1]

In other words, doctors are doing a better job of treating diabetes and diabetes-related conditions, yet “the overall adverse effect of diabetes on public health is actually increasing,” according to an editorial accompanying the study.

Sources:

[1] Los Angeles Times

[2] National Institutes of Health

[3] Mayo Clinic

Los Angeles Times

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	Julie Fidler is a freelance writer, legal blogger, and the author of Adventures in Holy Matrimony: For Better or the Absolute Worst. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two ridiculously spoiled cats. She occasionally pontificates on her blog.