pimg class=”alignright” title=”Cherries” alt=”cherries2″ src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/cherries2.jpg” width=”320″ height=”213″ /For today#8217;s a title=”Dear Mark” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/dear-mark/”Dear Mark/a, I#8217;m answering a bunch of your questions rapid fire-style. First up, I discuss why a person might experience nausea after breaking a 24 hour fast with a meal. Second, I explore some pushup alternatives for a guy with terrible thumb arthritis. Third, I explain the importance of chewing for jaw development, dental health, and digestion, and for the last three, I give my take on sour cherry juice as a health supplement, yacon syrup as a Primal sweetener, and middle distance running as an acceptable form of exercise./p
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pI have been fasting for 24 hour periods once or twice a week. I feel great during the fast but have had some terrible nausea upon breaking the fast. Why is that and what do you suggest?/p
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pYou#8217;re probably eating too large a meal to break the […]

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When I make salads, I have a fairly basic formula that I adapt based on what I have on hand: greens, extra vegetables, grains, nuts or seeds, a basic vinaigrette, and protein (either legumes or eggs). This spinach salad follows my basic formula, pairing some wonderful spring produce — green garlic and spinach — with the earthy, chewiness of the spelt. Add the hard-boiled egg and you have a quite the hearty salad.

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Chicken Adobo” alt=”ChickenAdobo” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/ChickenAdobo.jpg” width=”320″ height=”227″ /In this Primal version of Filipino chicken adobo adapted for a slow cooker, a title=”Is it Primal? – Coconut Aminos” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-it-primal-7-more-foods-scrutinized/#axzz2bD2pGvO3″coconut aminos/a take the place of soy sauce. The result is a wheat-free, soy free meal that still has the authentic sweet, salty and slightly tart flavor that makes chicken adobo so good./p
pWhile coconut aminos don’t taste exactly like a title=”Soy Scrutiny” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#axzz2bKTxyFGi”soy/a sauce, the differences in flavor are harder to detect the longer coconut aminos are cooked. Braising or simmering meat in a sauce laced with coconut aminos adds umami flavor to the dish. The coconut aminos also add a hint of natural sweetness. By the end of the cooking process, the sweet, salty and umami flavors are in perfect balance./p
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pChicken adobo adds one more flavor element, the subtle zing of a title=”How to Make Red Wine Vinegar” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-make-red-wine-vinegar/”vinegar/a. Way […]

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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” alt=”real life stories stories 1 2″ src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2009/real_life_stories_stories-1-2.jpg” width=”320″ height=”240″ /Is it heretical in a sense to dare say that one’s personality could change to such an extent that one can shift from introvert to extrovert? Did I simply fall prey to the American ideal of extraversion which judges and belittles introverts? Am I simply an introvert who learned to put on a strong extroverted front for the world? These doubts run through my mind all […]

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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” alt=”real life stories stories 1 2″ src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2009/real_life_stories_stories-1-2.jpg” width=”320″ height=”240″ /Is it heretical in a sense to dare say that one’s personality could change to such an extent that one can shift from introvert to extrovert? Did I simply fall prey to the American ideal of extraversion which judges and belittles introverts? Am I simply an introvert who learned to put on a strong extroverted front for the world? These doubts run through my mind all […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Crisis” alt=”crisis” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/crisis.jpg” width=”320″ height=”242″ /So often we associate the two together #8211; health and crisis. You can#8217;t blame us really. The headlines brim with the concept weekly. Newscasts run their stock video of obese or frail forms walking down a city street. I have something else in mind here, however #8211; inspired by some friends and readers who I#8217;ve talked to lately. Their stories run a gamut of scenarios from cancer diagnoses to divorce, personal loss to geographic moves to name just a few. The underlying commonality of them all, of course, is major life challenge and/or transition. Upheaval of this magnitude has a way of knocking us out of our orbits. Emotionally disoriented and fatigued, we can feel out of sync, stuck in an oddly passive or at least awkward pattern. Life can feel like it#8217;s happening around us. Even our routines can feel foreign as […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Flours” alt=”flours” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/flours.jpg” width=”320″ height=”319″ /A few years back, I a title=”Is Central Heating Related to Obesity?” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-central-heating-related-to-obesity/#axzz2x01JKOIb”briefly covered a throwaway Yahoo! article/a about how #8220;carbs will make you lose weight#8221; because so many readers had emailed about it. It turned out that the #8220;carbs#8221; in the article were resistant starch, a type of carbohydrate that our digestive enzymes cannot break down. I#8217;ll admit now, with regret, that I didn#8217;t look as deeply into the matter as I might have. I didn#8217;t dismiss resistant starch, but I did downplay its importance, characterizing it as #8220;just another type of prebiotic#8221; #8211; important but not necessary so long as you were eating other fermentable fibers. While technically true, we#8217;re fast learning that resistant starch may be a special type of prebiotic with a special place in the human diet./p
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pimg class=”alignright” title=”CrossFit Front Squat” alt=”squatting 1″ src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/squatting-1.jpg” width=”320″ height=”213″ /Just as we should eat the foods our bodies were designed to eat, we should move our bodies the way they were meant to move and impose the stressors they were meant to bear. That means squatting, and squatting often. Our hips flex, knees bend, and ankles dorsiflex so that we can rest comfortably in a squat position./p
pOkay, but isn#8217;t the squat a bit outdated? Why not just use a chair?/p
pYou#8217;ve probably heard how modern processed foods use refined a title=”The Definitive Guide to Sugar” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-definitive-guide-to-sugar/”sugar/a, a title=”Salt and Pepper Varieties” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/pepper-and-salt-varieties/”salt/a, and a title=”The Definitive Guide to Oils” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/healthy-oils/”seed oils/a to hijack our natural desires for a title=”Best Fruit Choices” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/best-fruit-choices/”fruits/a, a title=”Animal Fat” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/yet-another-primal-primer-animal-fats/”animal fat/a, and animal meat. They exploit our wiring and provide hyper-stimulation to our senses, prompting massive overconsumption; some refer to this as #8220;Food Reward.#8221; In […]

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