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Milk supplement Nasure Diabetes Care lowers blood sugar level.
Publisher’s rating: False
‘Zwarte vrouwen hebben 41% meer kans om te sterven aan borstkanker.’
Publisher’s rating: Waar
De EU kent een oversterfte van 16,3 percent. In Duitsland overleden op vijf weken tijd meer mensen dan gedurende de hele Vietnamoorlog.
Publisher’s rating: Nee, Europa heeft weliswaar te maken met een oversterfte, maar die bedraagt volgens de meest recente cijfers (oktober 2023) slechts 3,9 procent. Waarschijnlijk liggen de cijfers voor december 2023 hoger, maar dat moet nog blijken. In Duitsland waren er geen vijf weken waarin net zoveel doden vielen als in de hele Vietnamoorlog.
Popular diets that claim to offer myriad health benefits and life-changing transformation.
Publisher’s rating: The hype about Master Cleanse, Mono Diet, or Mediterranean diet on social media tends to make huge generalisations and often distorts or ignores scientific evidence.
Rapsöl fördert Krebs
Publisher’s rating: Wissenschaftler haben dafür keine Beweise gefunden. Die Behauptung ist nach aktuellem Wissensstand falsch.
លោក ហ៊ុន សែន ប្រមូលកូនចៅទាំងអស់ទៅជប៉ុនដើម្បីលាងប្ដូរឈាមដោយសារស្ថានភាពសុខភាពធ្ងន់ធ្ងរ
Publisher’s rating: False
Fact Crescendo Cambodia reports that Hun Sen traveled to Japan with his children to have his artificial eye changed, not to receive hemodialysis. The review says its assessment relied on his social media posts and notes it found no medical clarification about his health.
ඉන්දියාවේ හයිද්රබාද් පොලීසිය ඉබෝලා වෛරසය ඇතුළත් කර ඇති සිසිල් බීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැනුවත් කළ නිවේදනයේ ඇත්ත කතාව!
Publisher’s rating: False
“*Ministério da Saúde, informa Variante XBB Todos são aconselhados a usar máscara porque a nova variante do coronavírus COVID-Omicron XBB é diferente, mortal e difícil de detectar corretamente. (...) COVID-Omicron XBB é 5 vezes mais virulento que a variante Delta e tem uma taxa de mortalidade maior que esta.”
Publisher’s rating: Rating unavailable
Hyderabad Police Issued A Warning Against Soft Drinks Containing The Ebola Virus!
Publisher’s rating: False
The review says Hyderabad Police clarified that the viral warning was fake and that the police had never issued such a message. It reports that the clarification was posted on 13 July 2019 and says it found no relevant NDTV report. [S1]
Rapsöl fördert Entzündungen
Publisher’s rating: Das ist nach aktuellem Wissensstand falsch.
COVID-19 "came out of Wuhan, the labs,” referring to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Publisher’s rating: Unsupported
"The problem now in the last five years is life expectancy is going down."
Publisher’s rating: Largely correct
Life expectancy is significantly longer today than it was when Social Security was created in the 1930s.
Publisher’s rating: Life expectancy has risen
Herbal hair oils can significantly enhance hair growth by reducing hair fall
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
FACTLY says some studies suggest natural oils may nourish and moisturize hair, but those studies involved healthy individuals without severe hair-related issues. It explains that hair loss has varied causes and that applying oil alone will not significantly reduce hair fall; treatment should address the underlying cause.
This video claims pasteurizing milk makes it nutrient-deficient and refortifying it with vitamins makes it synthetic.
Publisher’s rating: False
Refrigerating face masks before use is an ineffective method
Publisher’s rating: Explainer
Der WHO-Pandemieplan soll Menschenrechte in den Mitgliedstaaten aushebeln.
Publisher’s rating: An keiner Stelle im WHO-Vorentwurf wird eine Untergrabung der Menschenrechtskonventionen erwähnt. Die Souveränität der Mitgliedstaaten wird sogar bekräftigt.