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  According to Natural News , in late July, biotech giant Monsanto paid bloggers $150 each to attend what was billed as "an intimate and interactive panel" with "two female farmers and a team" from the company. It was a strict invitation-only affair, a three-hour brunch that took place on the heels of something called the "BlogHer Conference," and it promised the attendant bloggers an opportunity to learn about "where your food comes from," and to hear about the "impact growing food has on the environment, and how farmers are using fewer resources to feed a growing population," as reported by Anna Lappe of Al Jazeera America . Despite the fact that the invitations from BlogHer state explicitly, "No blog posts or social media posts expected," the event was pretty much intended to influence opinions -- and the writing -- of a key influential figure: the mommy blogger. Lappe further reported: Another invite-onl

    Cessation & Weight Management   A Special Report        By: Sean David Cohen; M.Ed, ABJ   Why do people generally put on weight after they quit smoking?   Most smokers eat junk food nearly every day of their smoking lives because they know the cigarettes are already destroying most of their "healthy living" so why bother to eat right, right? There are 45 million smokers in the United States and Americans eat about 50 billion hamburgers a year, so go figure. McDonald's alone sells 75 burgers every second of every day. Fast food, beer and aspirin are a typical consumption regimen for many smokers, who don't sleep well, have sicknesses last longer than non-smokers, and have that constant hack cough. So no matter what weight a smoker may be "weighing in" at while smoking, that weight is likely to skyrocket after coming off nicotine. The hourly or bi-hourly stimulant keeps many smokers skinny or at the weight they were when th