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pA light coating of homemade mayo and a small bit of chopped pickle, jalapeno and/or chives is all you need to make this potato salad come together. If you throw too many ingredients into the bowl, you risk overwhelming your taste buds. Remember, sweet potatoes have a lot more flavor than regular old bland, starchy tubers do. If you’re heading out to a BBQ on a hot summer […]

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“Why does breakfast make me hungry?” When someone asked me that question for the umpteenth time since my methods became popular, I finally decided to indulge in a deeper exploration of what the plausible mechanism might be. I thought I’d share my thoughts on that with you today.br /
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iMy heart sank when it seemed they had provided overwhelming evidence for the benefits of breakfast a few months ago. But I […]

Original post by Martin Berkhan

pimg class=”alignright” title=”Ezekiel Bread” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/ezekielbread.jpg” alt=”ezekielbread” width=”320″ height=”212″ /In this #8220;Is It Primal?#8221; series of posts I#8217;ve already scrutinized a title=”Is It Primal? – Sprouts, Agave Nectar, Tapioca and Other Foods Scrutinized ” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-it-primal-7-more-foods-scrutinized/”sprouts/a, a title=”Is It Primal? – Cashews, Fermented Soy, Vinegar and Other Foods Scrutinized ” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-it-primal-8-foods-scrutinized/”cashews/a, a title=”Is It Primal? – Cod Liver Oil, Sunflower Butter, Mead, and Other Foods Scrutinized” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-paleo-cod-liver-oil-sunflower-butter-mead-maple-syrup-pectin/”sunflower butter/a, a title=”Is It Primal? – Coconut Water, Chocolate Milk, Glycomaize and Other Foods Scrutinized” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-it-primal-10-foods-scrutinized/”chocolate milk/a and a couple dozen other foods for their suitability in a healthy human diet. Today, I#8217;m covering Ezekiel bread, the sprouted grain amalgamation favored by conventional health nuts; V8, the tomato juice with a little vegetable juice mixed in; edamame, the little kid of the soybean family; mezcal, tequila#8217;s mysterious older brother; and tigernuts, which aren#8217;t what you probably think they are./p
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Original post by Mark Sisson

pa title=”The Primal Blueprint 90-Day Journal” href=”http://primalblueprint.com/products/The-Primal-Blueprint-90%252dDay-Journal.html?utm_source=mdaamp;utm_medium=linkamp;utm_campaign=90_day_launch_post_book_image_top” target=”_blank”img class=”alignright” title=”The Primal Blueprint 90-Day Journal” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/90day_spiralcover_front-1.jpg” alt=”90day spiralcover front 1″ width=”328″ height=”431″ //astrongemThe Primal Blueprint 90-Day Journal – A Personal Experiment/em is here, and it goes above and beyond anything you have ever seen in the health and fitness logbook/journal/diary category./strong Honestly, the project has been in Ramp;D for no less than 30 years, dating back to my days as a competitive endurance athlete when I faithfully logged my workouts in the popular training logs du jour. Even then, I was never terribly impressed with the products on the store shelves. They were (and still are) either too open-ended with no guidance whatsoever, or too limiting, with logbook blanks that didn#8217;t apply to my personal experiences. I thought, perhaps there was a way to marry the best of both worlds: to provide guidance and structure for assorted ability and experience levels, […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Not this kind of Reserve…although if you're looking for a bday present…

Yesterday I wrote a blog post outlining why it’s possible to gain muscle while following Eat Stop Eat style intermittent fasting.
In that email, I made mention of the fact that your ability to gain muscle while losing fat has more to do with your total ‘reserve’ then it does the exact amount of calories you are eating.
It also has a lot do with inhibition theory and the concept that your body’s natural state is growth, and it is regulated by ‘brakes’. If we didn’t have brakes we would have almost unlimited growth potential (think tumors)…but more on that later.
(You can check out the post here if you missed it)
The concept of a ‘reserve’ is based on the theory of fat availability… which coincidentally is the basis for the Reverse Taper Diet.
And this brings me to a very important point: […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

I don’t have a label for the type of diet I like to follow. I eat Paleo meals occasionally, use Intermittent Fasting about once per week, eat Gluten Free at times, etc. If I had to come up for a term for it, I’d call it “Hybrid Dieting”. It is a loose way of eating, where I take principles from several solid diets…when it makes sense. I’ll outline some solid principles in this post for those who want to lose weight without necessarily following a rigid diet year-round.

The” Calories In/Calories Out” Strategy

I shouldn’t even call this a strategy. The idea of burning more calories than you take in, should be the #1 goal when it comes to losing body fat. Sounds obvious, right? You would think so…but I can almost guarantee you that there will be several people commenting who will dispute this strategy. There are several groups who believe […]

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John Barban and I are just about finished writing “The Inhibition Theory of Muscle Growth” a theory that should turn the entire muscle building industry on it’s head.

If you got one foot on the gas and one foot on the break you're not going to get too far

The premise of our theory is incredibly simple — The ‘natural’ state for your body is growth, with checks and balances acting as breaks to prevent this growth.
As an analogy, it’s like having a car with the accelerator permanently stuck to the floor, and you regulate the speed of the car with by pushing down or letting up on the break. Only in your body’s case there are dozens if not hundreds of breaks.
The entire theory would take several emails to fully explain, so for this post we’ll just stick with the idea that your body’s natural state is one of growth. This […]

Original post by Brad Pilon