Steve Cooksey Before Paleo Diet and After Photo

Steve Cooksey is a blogger who advocates a paleothic diet ( a diet based on foods only available to early humans with no grains, potatoes, beans, or refined sugars), to help with diabetes.  He had diabetes and after going on a paleo diet he no longer needs any diabetes drugs or insulin. The problem?  The North Carolina  Board of Dietetics/Nutrition feels he has violated the state law in chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes makes it a misdemeanor to “practice dietetics or nutrition” without a license. According to the law, “practicing” nutrition includes “assessing the nutritional needs of individuals and groups” and “providing nutrition counseling.”  Despite having the following disclaimer at the bottom of every page on his website diabetes-warrior.net : “I am not a doctor, dietitian, nor nutritionist … in fact I have no medical training of any kind.” they claim that he was still presenting himself as an expert despite his lack of medical training.  

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For those of you following this blog, you are probably aware that this entire blog was copied by a splog, a fake blog that profits from stolen content.  I wrote about my experience and what I learned to do if you have been splogged last week.  I have learned from this experience that what most people who write on this topic say is true, "It's not IF your blog will be splogged but WHEN."  So if you have a blog and haven't protected it, now is the time to do it (before it even happens).  I think it's worth it to take the time to protect your content considering how much time you spend creating it.  Why should someone profit from your work?

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How I Found Out This Blog Was Splogged
About a week ago I was researching the average last frost date here in Minneapolis on Google, and my article I wrote last spring came up.  What was weird was I saw two listings for the same article I had written, one was this site and another site, so I clicked on it only to see it copied word for word with all my images and all the links stripped, with no credit given at all.  There was no about page, contact email, or any navigation.  There was however related links posted after the article, all of which were the exact same titles of articles I have written and published on this site.  The more I tried to dig into the site, the more of my articles I found of mine along with other garden bloggers.  As far as I can tell I had around a hundred of my articles stolen.  Some were even copied 3 or 4 times, due to me changing the title. It even copied my own comments and the readers of this blogs comments on some pages!  I guess to make it look more legit maybe. 

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What does this mean?   Professional sploggers create multiply sites that steal content of blogs via software and make money by the traffic created from the stolen work from ads on the site.  Every article I have ever written on this site has been copied.  If you are reading this anywhere but the site A Minneapolis Homestead at the url http://theurbanhomestaed.blogspot.com then the site is a splog stealing my content and others.