pimg class=”alignright” title=”Fat” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/fat.jpg” alt=”fat” width=”319″ height=”211″ /Last week#8217;s a title=”Dear Mark: Leptin Resets, Cold Thermogenesis, and Safe Starches?” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-leptin-resets-cold-thermogenesis-and-safe-starches/#axzz1wCpZyqRi”Dear Mark discussing cold thermogenesis/a got some of you asking about brown adipose tissue. It#8217;s a topic that deserves a full-fledged Primal Primer, especially since the idea of #8220;good#8221; body fat, a term many use to describe brown adipose tissue (BAT), is a foreign one. I mean, we#8217;re talking about body fat here. Who wants it? Everyone I know is trying to get rid of their adipose tissue, not obtain more. It#8217;s what brings many to this blog and what initiates this grand journey toward health and wellness. Even the people who say they #8220;don#8217;t care#8221; about a title=”Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/health-vanity/”how they look/a would rather not have excess body fat, if only because it#8217;s a marker of poor health or hormonal disregulation. We might acknowledge that we […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Chromosomes” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/choromsomes.jpg” alt=”choromsomes” width=”320″ height=”240″ /For years now, it#8217;s been said that telomeres #8211; the tips of your chromosomes #8211; are the key to cancer and aging. The shorter emthey/em are, the worse off emyou/em are #8211; so the story goes. But what do we emreally/em know about them? Can the length of your telomeres help predict how long you#8217;ll live? Could telomere research unlock a modern fountain of youth? Could humans one day live to be hundreds of years old?/p
pDr. Ron Rosedale of a title=”DrRosedale.com” href=”http://drrosedale.com/” target=”_blank”DrRosedale.com/a and ema title=”Amazon.com: The Rosedale Diet” href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006056573X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8amp;tag=marsdaiapp07-20amp;linkCode=as2amp;camp=1789amp;creative=390957amp;creativeASIN=006056573X” target=”_blank”The Rosedale Diet/a/em is here to answer some of these questions in this special guest post. In it he will introduce you to these little bits of genetic sequences, and provide his expert commentary on the state of telomere science. It will get somewhat technical in parts, but it#8217;s well worth the read./p
pemNow, […]

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pYou may have heard that Steve Cooksey of a title=”Diabetes Warrior” href=”http://www.diabetes-warrior.net/” target=”_blank”Diabetes-Warrior.net/a received a letter back in January from the North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutritionists explaining to him that he and his website were being investigated. What was Steve doing wrong, you ask? Well, Steve was sharing a title=”My Diabetes Story” href=”http://www.diabetes-warrior.net/about-me-and-diabetes/” target=”_blank”his story/a with his readers and suggesting that they might benefit from following a similar path. And he was doing it without a license! You can read all about it a title=”This Site amp; Free Speech are being investigated” href=”http://www.diabetes-warrior.net/2012/01/28/this-site-free-speech-are-being-investigated/” target=”_blank”here/a./p
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pApparently, Steve sharing advice about diet #8211; whether he offered it for free or charged for it #8211; was a crime and they could take a him to court over […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Tropical Traditions and Primal Fuel” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/TropicalandFuel.png” alt=”TropicalandFuel” width=”319″ height=”222″ /Last year I held a contest during the annual 30-Day Challenge called #8220;a title=”Contest: Share Your Wisdom” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/contest-share-your-wisdom/”Share Your Wisdom/a#8220;. In it I asked Mark#8217;s Daily Apple readers (you) for answers to 10 questions that would help newbies kick start their Primal lives. Things like #8220;What do you think is the most important thing one should understand as they attempt to go Primal?#8221;, #8220;What was the biggest hurdle you experienced when going Primal and how did you overcome it?#8221;, and #8220;What do you eat for breakfast?#8221;. I then compiled your answers into an ebook that all MDA newsletter subscribers receive for free called #8220;Primal Living in the Real World#8221;. It#8217;s #5 in the list a title=”Subscribe to the Blog” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/subscribe-to-blog/”here/a./p
pSince the ebook#8217;s release, I#8217;ve had numerous people email me expressing how much they appreciated the insights from members of the […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”I Hate Exercise!” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/exercise.jpg” alt=”exercise” width=”320″ height=”212″ /Many of us enjoy exercise, probably more just tolerate it, but have you ever known someone to emdetest/em it with every fiber of their being? Today, we have a question from a reader with precisely that issue. She hates exercise, and even feels near to tears when she has to do it. Moreover, she doesn#8217;t get the #8220;a title=”Dear Mark: Matcha Tea, Runner’s High, Stress and Weight Gain, and Fasting for Teens” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-matcha-tea-runners-high-stress-and-weight-gain-and-fasting-for-teens/”high/a#8221; that many of us #8211; even the ones who would rather be doing something else #8211; enjoy after a workout. Well, she#8217;s not alone. Regular exercise is a major a title=”How to Deal with Common Primal Stumbling Blocks” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-deal-with-common-primal-stumbling-blocks/” target=”_blank”stumbling block/a for many of us, so let#8217;s take a look at some general strategies those that hate exercise can employ, as well as new ways to think about and approach […]

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Reading about personal finance is always interesting to me. Mostly because I always seem to find a way to relate it back to calories and fat loss.
There are a lot of similarities between personal finance and fat finance. The main tenant beings almost equal:
Spend less than you earn, burn more than you eat.
Interestingly, I saw an article about personal finance the other day that was very much in sync with the ideas behind the Reverse Taper Diet.
Now, I don’t know whether this was on the Get Rich Slowly Blog or was something I was directed to through their twitter (@GRSBlog) but the basic premise was as follows:
Getting out of debt is rarely the ending for most people. People who were in debt and then get out of debt are very likely to fall back into debt. The reason being they never really learned how to live at a non-debt […]

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WARNING: This  post has a little bit of Canada in it. I’m going to be using Ice-Hockey in a rather odd analogy (Would you expect any other kind from me?). If you don’t know who Wayne Gretzky is, please google him (And ‘Paulina Gretzky’s father’ is not the correct answer!).
 
Alright…so the analogy is actually a simple one — Wight training to build muscle is like practicing to become good at a sport.
In the beginning it’s all about OR OR 

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Grilled Fish” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/GrilledFish.jpg” alt=”GrilledFish” width=”320″ height=”212″ /Although a title=”Grocery Store Seafood” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/grocery-store-seafood-what-to-eat-and-what-to-avoid/#axzz1viXVDGgX “fish markets/a are mostly filled with boneless, skinless fillets, there are many reasons to go home with a whole fish instead. The reaction of dinner guests is one. They’ll “ooh” and “ahh” at the dramatic presentation or shriek at the sight of a fish head with eyes staring back at them. Either way, it makes for a lively meal. The pleasure of cooking a whole animal, rather than an unidentifiable part, is another reason to buy a whole fish. It’s also easier to tell if a OR OR 

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pIt’s Friday, everyone! And that means another a title=”Success Stories” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/success-story-summaries/”Primal Blueprint Real Life Story/a from a Mark#8217;s Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark’s Daily Apple community please contact me a title=”Contact Me!” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-book/share-success-story/” target=”_self”here/a. I’ll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading!/p
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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Primal Blueprint Real Life Story” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2009/real_life_stories_stories-1-2.jpg” alt=”real life stories stories 1 2″ width=”320″ height=”240″ /Dear Mark,/p
pUntil November of 2008 I had always been very fit and OR OR 

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