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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
pI#8217;m a physician and budding blogger, and I#8217;ve been a fan of MDA for a few years now. You are my blog-crush, always combining the perfect blend of serious scientific information with colloquial content. Primal living is about much more than just what we eat and how we exercise, and your posts always reflect that!/p
pMy story begins around the time I found your site and […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Eliinate SAD Foods” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/trashcan.jpg” alt=”trashcan” width=”288″ height=”287″ //p
pThe fundamental key to success with any lifestyle modification is removal, elimination, and avoidance of the agents of opposition to your desired lifestyle. If you#8217;re trying to read more books and stop watching reality television, you#8217;re going to want to cancel your scheduled recordings of Jersey Shore. If you#8217;re trying not to drink a title=”The Definitive Guide to Alcohol” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/low-carb-alcohol/”alcohol/a for a month, you#8217;ll want to get rid of the beer, booze, and wine in your house. Heck, if you#8217;re going vegan, you#8217;ll want to toss all the animal products from your fridge, pantry, and freezer. And if you#8217;re going Primal, whether if it#8217;s for a a title=”The 2012 Primal Blueprint 21-Day Challenge Begins Now ” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-2012-primal-blueprint-21-day-challenge-begins-now/”21-Day Challenge/a or just to get healthier in general, you need to strongeliminate the Standard American Diet foods that promise to thwart you at […]

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p style=”text-align: center;”img class=”aligncenter” title=”The Primal Blueprint 8 Key Concepts” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/primal_8_key_concepts.gif” alt=”primal 8 key concepts” width=”320″ height=”240″ //p
pWith the a title=”The 2012 Primal Blueprint 21-Day Challenge Begins Now” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-2012-primal-blueprint-21-day-challenge-begins-now/”Primal Blueprint 21-Day Challenge/a having just begun, it#8217;s the perfect time to go over the Primal Blueprint 8 Key Concepts. I believe that a title=”What Does it Mean to Grok on?” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/what-does-it-mean-to-grok-on/”fully grokking/a these powerful ideas is crucial to success during the challenge. As the saying goes, knowledge is power. Having a firm grasp of these key concepts will provide a framework for #8211; and make you more resolute in #8211; your daily decisions. Read them, commit them to memory, live by them, and you#8217;ll be well on your way to a lifetime of health and wellness./p
pIn the coming days and weeks, I will lay out the path to Primal health in greater detail, but for now, are you ready to learn […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Never Give Up” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/giveup.jpg” alt=”giveup” width=”319″ height=”213″ /With yesterday’s launch of this year’s a title=”The 2012 Primal Blueprint 21-Day Challenge Begins Now” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-2012-primal-blueprint-21-day-challenge-begins-now/”Primal Challenge/a, I hope you’re all feeling as pumped and excited as I am. Whatever you biggest goal coming into it (e.g. weight loss, stress management, fitness performance), you’re in great company. Thousands of readers every year find the annual Challenge a powerful catalyst for transforming their well-being. Having made the initial commitment, we’re now on the a title=”It’s a Journey, Not a Race” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/its-a-journey-not-a-race/”journey/a itself. strongThis is where the rubber meets the road, folks./strong Rush turns to focus. Vision becomes reality one day at a time. For some readers, however, staring down the path might seem especially long and arduous. The road side, so to speak, might be littered with the psychological scraps of past disappointments, long-term illness, or emotional issues. Some folks can […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Eat Me.” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/Bradford/canton090705F13closeupredangus.jpg” alt=”canton090705F13closeupredangus” width=”312″ height=”249″ /It’s cow time. a title=”US Wellness” href=”http://www.grasslandbeef.com/StoreFront.bok” target=”_blank”US Wellness/a has long been a favorite meat spot for MDA readers. A few years ago they donated a title=”Pemmican” href=”http://www.grasslandbeef.com/Detail.bok?no=531″ target=”_blank”pemmican/a and the popular a title=”Bucket of Fat” href=”http://www.grasslandbeef.com/Detail.bok?no=711″ target=”_blank”5 gallon bucket of fat/a. Last year they went whole hog. And by hog, I mean cow. And they#8217;re doing it again this year.strong US Wellness has generously offered up a cow to the winners of today’s contest, the Grokfeast Challenge. /strong(More specifically, enough gift certificates to buy an entire cow.)strongbr /
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pFor those of you with raised eyebrow, they won’t actually be delivering a mooing, cud chewing, udder dangling live cow to your doorstep. But you emwill /emreceive the delicious meat that once was that cow. And I#8217;m not just talking about a bucket of chuck.strong The winners will receive sirloin, brisket, short ribs, back […]

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So, what do we really know about Acne?
Well for one, we know that it’s a common human skin disease characterized by red scaly skin, black heads, white heads and other forms of ‘blemishes’. We also know that the idea that “acne is generally expected to spontaneously regress during the late teenaged or early adulthood years” is a complete and utter lie… at least in North America.
There are many people still suffering from acne in their 30s, 40s and beyond.
Acne affects more than 85% of adolescents and, as many of us have noticed, often continues will into adulthood[i].
Despite this knowledge the truth is there are relatively few studies in the literature that address adult acne. And, while acne may seem like a mild inconvenience to some (usually those not suffering from it) the importance of providing treatment for adults is heightened by the fact that acne that persists for long […]

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