pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2008040/party.jpg” alt=”party” width=”320″ height=”213″ title=”Why We Eat: Other People” /For those of you who did a double-take, how could I resist? It’s not only an example of why punctuation matters but another major reason why we hominids chow down (in addition to the a title=”Why We Eat: Hunger” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-we-eat-hunger/”hunger /aand a title=”Why We Eat: Cravings” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-we-eat-cravings/”cravings/a we discussed the last couple of weeks). Ah, the power of social suggestion… Think for a moment about your experience, and compare eating alone to eating with others. Maybe it’s helpful to break it down further. What is it like to eat a title=”Diet Change and Partner Dynamics” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/partner-eating-habits-influence/”with your partner/a? a title=”Raising Your Kids on Primal Foods (plus Mealtime Strategies for Picky Eaters)” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/raising-your-kids-on-primal-foods-plus-mealtime-strategies-for-picky-eaters/”Your kids/a? (Yup, that one definitely belongs in a category all its own.) Your a title=”Dear Mark: Family Dinner” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/family-health/”extended family/a? Your friends and neighbors? Strangers? Obviously the […]

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Sure, you can easily mix butter, flour, sugar, and eggs into something sweet and tasty. But what makes baking really special are the less obvious ingredients — maybe it’s a high-quality extract or flavoring, or maybe it’s splurging on that fancy bar of chocolate you’ve been eyeing in the store.

Here are five easy-to-find ingredients that will give your baked goods and dessert recipes extra-special oomph, making them well worth the small investment.

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pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2008039/tired3.jpg” alt=”tired3″ width=”320″ height=”213″ title=”11 Signs Youre Not As Healthy As You Think You Are” /You could be the picture of health to everyone who beholds you, feel generally #8220;okay#8221; on a daily basis without any real complaints, and never really feel compelled to visit the doctor for any specific issue. Plus, a title=”Unconventional Ways to “Get Primal”” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/unconventional-ways-to-get-primal/”you#8217;re Primal/a, so what could possibly go wrong? Except that many of us, if we stop to think about it, have little niggling symptoms that annoy us. And some of them could portend more serious conditions. I don#8217;t want to emworry/em anyone or freak you guys out. I just want you to be aware of seemingly inconsequential symptoms before they become more serious./p
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Did you know you can peel a mango with just a drinking glass? Or that you can use a pastry tip to remove cherry stones? There are so many ways to peel, cut, or otherwise prepare fruit in the kitchen, but some are better than others.

If you love eating fruit by itself, or use fruit in a lot of seasonal recipes, these 10 small yet mighty shortcuts may just save you some valuable time.

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Have you made an airy pavlova or meringue lately? Or did the health nut in your family abscond with all the egg whites for his breakfast scramble, leaving you with an excess of egg yolks?

Don’t be annoyed! Step up to the challenge and look at this as an opportunity to use these protein-packed, sunny spheres in new recipes. We promise that whatever you choose to make, it’ll be delicious.

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pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/telecommuting.jpg” alt=”telecommuting” width=”320″ height=”214″ title=”Telecommuting: How and Why to Do It” /Our jobs define us, for better or worse. When we#8217;re out at a party and someone asks #8220;What do you do?#8221; we don#8217;t talk about our love of Eastern European history or our kite-flying or the workout regimen we#8217;ve recently put together. We talk about how we make money #8211; our job, our work #8211; probably because it#8217;s only natural to focus on the activities that allow us to eat, have a roof over our heads, and stay relatively clothed. But it#8217;s also because work is the single biggest time sucker in our lives. The average American adult with kids and a job a title=”Charts from the American Time Use Survey” href=”http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/” target=”_blank”spends nearly 9 hours per day engaged in work-related activities/a, more than time spent sleep, leisure, or eating./p
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pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/unschooling.jpg” alt=”unschooling” width=”320″ height=”213″ title=”Dear Mark: Unschooling and Letting Your Freak Flag Fly” /Today#8217;s edition of a title=”Dear Mark” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/dear-mark/#axzz3C022vu6i”Dear Mark/a has a theme: being a Primal freak and proud of it. First up is a question about the Primalness of unschooling, a learning method that isn#8217;t really a method and challenges everything most people think they know about education. Since hunter-gatherers didn#8217;t attend schools, instead learning about the world by living in and being curious about it, does it follow that modern children can also learn effectively without formal education meted out by an authority? I think so. And then I help a reader discover the joy of reveling in one#8217;s strangeness. You#8217;re weird, I#8217;m weird, we#8217;re all weird. Everyone else is going to notice it, and that#8217;s more than okay./p
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