pimg class=”alignright” title=”Male/Female” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/malefemale.jpg” alt=”malefemale” width=”288″ height=”287″ /A few months ago, I addressed the role a title=”Dear Mark: Women and Intermittent Fasting” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/women-and-intermittent-fasting/#axzz248KNvVmT”gender plays in how we respond to intermittent fasting/a. That post sparked a great discussion, and I#8217;ve since received a fair number of emails from readers eager to learn other ways in which gender plays a role in our health and nutrition. One email in particular set me off on a round of research. So, a hat tip to you, Winifred, for giving me something to think, learn, and write about. I hope everyone finds it to be helpful./p
pAs you may know, women and men store and metabolize fat differently from each other, and a 2008 paper (a title=”Sex differences in fat storage, fat metabolism, and the health risks from  obesity: possible evolutionary origins” href=”http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2F19830_4BE93ABC99689E2A140BB87CAA19C980_journals__BJN_BJN99_05_S0007114507853347a.pdfamp;cover=Yamp;code=02311957beb462e1329e7a33e0a9df0e” target=”_blank”PDF/a) reviewed the evolutionary reasons for these differences. Here#8217;s a summary of their findings and few other noteworthy factoids:/p
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pWomen carry more fat than men. They are […]

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pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/niagara.jpg” alt=”niagara” title=”niagara photo” /Anyone who#8217;s been through a health store has heard about ions. If it#8217;s not someone offering samples of ionized water, it#8217;s someone selling ionized bracelets. It sounds wacky, woo-woo, crazy, and as if it belongs firmly in the same realm as crystals, magnet therapy, and cryptozoology (although the kid in me is still holding out hope that both Squatch and Nessie are found), but is there actual science behind this negative ion stuff, or are the people who buy into this stuff totally off their rockers? Today, we venture into what some might consider the realm of the non-scientific to discuss negative ionizers #8211; both the natural kinds (like waterfalls) and the man-made variety (negative ion generators)./p
pLet#8217;s get to it:/p
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pI#8217;m almost scared/embarrassed to even ask you about this, but here goes: my friend, who#8217;s into crystals, homeopathy, and other types of alternative […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Brick Chicken” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/BrickChicken2.jpg” alt=”BrickChicken2″ width=”320″ height=”212″ /Who would’ve guessed that the secret to the juiciest, most tender a title=”Choosing Chicken: A Primal Purchasing Guide ” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/chicken-labels/#axzz2302s02YL”chicken/a breast you’ve ever tasted was a brick? Not a fancy culinary instrument that happens to be called a brick, but an actual brick, the type used to build houses and fireplaces and to landscape yards. A brick set on top of a cooking chicken applies just enough pressure to push the bird against the hot pan, crisping up the skin and cooking all the meat evenly and quickly before it dries out. The bird comes out juicy and tender on the inside, crispy and golden on the outside./p
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pAs long as you have a few bricks laying around, the technique couldn’t be easier. First, remove the backbone from the chicken so the bird can be splayed out flat. With a pair of […]

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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″ /I wanted to share my Primal success story with you, and give you a huge thanks for changing my life forever. Here goes#8230;/p
pWhen I was in high school I was way too skinny, but man did I have some energy. I could run a few miles playing games, ride my bike around the neighborhood up steep hills, roller blade for an hour, play a basketball game, […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Take a Deep Breath” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/sunset.jpg” alt=”sunset” width=”319″ height=”211″ /Anyone outside as they’re reading this? Who’s wishing they were? (I imagine there are many heads nodding.) It’s a natural human instinct, this pining away at the a title=”Sun Exposure and Glass” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/sun-exposure-glass-vitamin-d-uva-uvb/”office window/a, this emotional itch to break out, and finally the luxuriant relief to be in the open again. The fact is, we’re never so much at home as we are in the outdoors. Nature was the context and logic for all of human evolution. Temporary shelters and caves aside, our nomadic hunter-gatherer ancestors lived their full lives under the big sky. They developed complex skills and even a title=”Amazon.com: The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution ” href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608190552/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8amp;camp=1789amp;creative=390957amp;creativeASIN=1608190552amp;linkCode=as2amp;tag=marsdaiapp07-20″ target=”_blank”aesthetic preferences adaptive to surviving in the natural world/a. Increasingly, research illuminates the deep-reaching legacy of our natural roots. Studies support what Primal intuition has known all along: […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Take a Deep Breath” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/sunset.jpg” alt=”sunset” width=”319″ height=”211″ /Anyone outside as they’re reading this? Who’s wishing they were? (I imagine there are many heads nodding.) It’s a natural human instinct, this pining away at the a title=”Sun Exposure and Glass” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/sun-exposure-glass-vitamin-d-uva-uvb/”office window/a, this emotional itch to break out, and finally the luxuriant relief to be in the open again. The fact is, we’re never so much at home as we are in the outdoors. Nature was the context and logic for all of human evolution. Temporary shelters and caves aside, our nomadic hunter-gatherer ancestors lived their full lives under the big sky. They developed complex skills and even a title=”Amazon.com: The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution ” href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608190552/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8amp;camp=1789amp;creative=390957amp;creativeASIN=1608190552amp;linkCode=as2amp;tag=marsdaiapp07-20″ target=”_blank”aesthetic preferences adaptive to surviving in the natural world/a. Increasingly, research illuminates the deep-reaching legacy of our natural roots. Studies support what Primal intuition has known all […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Cigarette” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/cigarette.jpg” alt=”cigarette” width=”288″ height=”287″ /This past weekend, amidst all the Ancestral Health Symposium madness, I caught the headline while flicking through my phone for a few brief seconds. Didn#8217;t open it up, though. Just cruised on past. I#8217;d hoped to just forget about it, to ignore it, to banish it to the back of my mind where half truths and junk studies go to die. And truth be told, I pretty much had forgotten about it until I checked my email to find a ton of frantic emails from readers wondering if their beloved and dependable egg yolk breakfasts were killing them faster than the cigarettes they don#8217;t smoke. What? You didn#8217;t hear?/p
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pFollowed by (with less hysterical capitalization) #8220;May increase carotid plaque build-up.#8221;/p
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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Olive Oil” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/oliveoil3.jpg” alt=”oliveoil3″ width=”320″ height=”212″ /For thousands of years, humans have been picking, prizing, and pressing the fatty drupes found among the oblong leaves of the gnarled, twisted olive tree into rich, green-gold extra virgin olive oil. And for almost as many thousands of years, humans have been coming up with ways to fake it, to pass off cheaper, less delicious, less nutritious oils as the real thing. The earliest known written mention of olive oil #8211; from Syria, 24 BC #8211; describes how court-appointed inspectors would tour olive oil processing facilities to ensure quality, purity, and the absence of fraud. In ancient Rome, the vessels containing olive oil bore detailed information about the contents, including varietal of fruit used, place of origin, name of producer, the weight and quality of the oil, the name of the importer, plus the name of the official who inspected it […]

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