pimg class=”alignright size-full wp-image-53865″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/q.jpg” alt=”Questions” width=”320″ height=”213″ /Today, I#8217;m doing another batch of 21-Day Challenge questions pulled from the a title=”Contest: Ask Me a Question. Win Fat.” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/contest-ask-me-a-question-win-fat/”ones you asked me two weeks ago/a. I managed to make it onto the third page of comments. I#8217;d hoped to get through all of them, but with over 200 questions asked, the task proved insurmountable! Since they were by and large really great questions that deserve serious answers, though, I expect I#8217;ll be drawing on them for future editions of a title=”Dear Mark category” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/dear-mark/”Dear Mark/a. Stay tuned for that in the future./p
pThis week, we#8217;ve got questions about weight machine training, indoor sprinting, eating for drinking #8220;more than moderately,#8221; feeding kids, going Primal with a failing kidney, exercising kids, balancing sleep and exercise, going Primal as a vegetarian, and much more./p
pLet#8217;s go:/p
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pa href=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/weekend_link_love2.jpg” rel=”lightbox[53809]”img class=”alignright size-full wp-image-47936″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/weekend_link_love2.jpg” alt=”Weekend Link Love” width=”320″ height=”282″ //aPortland and surrounding environs! The Primal Blueprint Transformation Seminar is a title=”The Primal Blueprint Transformation Seminar” href=”http://www.primalblueprint.com/product/The_Primal_Blueprint_Transformation_Seminar/Events” target=”_blank”almost at your doorstep/a. Come join us on Thursday, January 29./p
pDue to popular demand, blog posts will now be going up at 5 AM Pacific Standard Time./p
pIf you#8217;re at all interested in the way diet and lifestyle can impact your risk of Alzheimer#8217;s (and dementia in general), you#8217;ll want to kick in some support – or at least help spread the word — for a title=”Bread Head” href=”https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxlugavere/bread-head-can-we-prevent-americas-most-feared-dis” target=”_blank”emBREAD HEAD/em/a, an upcoming documentary investigating the promising science of Alzheimer#8217;s prevention./p
pI was recently honored to a title=”Get Primal for Life! Nutrition amp; Eating Primally” href=”http://www.malibuchronicle.com/get-primal-for-life-nutrition-eating-primally/” target=”_blank”be featured/a in my own local paper, the Malibu Chronicle./p
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pWild chimps a title=”Chimps ‘talk’ about favourite fruits, best trees” href=”http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/01/20/4165321.htm” target=”_blank”talk about favorite fruits and the best […]

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pimg class=”alignright size-full wp-image-53818″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/sundried-stuffed-chicken-breast.jpg” alt=”sundried-stuffed-chicken-breast” width=”320″ height=”213″ /This week’s recipe is pulled straight from the pages of a title=”Paleo Primer” href=”http://www.primalblueprint.com/product/The_Paleo_Primer/Books_and_Media” target=”_blank”The Paleo Primer: A Jump-Start Guide to Losing Body Fat and Living Primally!/a, written by British health and fitness consultants Keris Marsden and Matt Whitmore. These folks, who run a popular fitness and wellness center called a title=”Fitter London” href=”http://fitterlondon.co.uk/” target=”_blank”Fitter London/a, have produced a book that is half “primer” and half incredibly creative recipes. The primer section distills the major concepts of primal/paleo/ancestral health living into clever and memorable short passages, spiced up by hilarious cartoon drawings. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, I highly recommend it!/p
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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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pIt#8217;s January 2014. I find myself 39 years old, recovering from wrist surgery, and uncertain about my career. You see, I#8217;m in the Navy, and they do not like overweight individuals. As such, I was looking at my previous 16 years potentially meaning nothing if I couldn#8217;t turn things around. Unfortunately, I am clueless. I have listened to […]

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Tim and Hannah live in a tiny (196-square-foot) cabin they built themselves in Tahoe, California. The cabin is situated in a forest; is made of mostly recycled, salvaged, or low-impact materials; and is completely off the grid.

How do they cook if there’s no electricity? What about a refrigerator? Or running water? They figured it all out, and designed a functional cooking space full of untraditional yet smart solutions.

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pimg class=”alignright size-full wp-image-53807″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/vitality.jpg” alt=”Vitality” width=”320″ height=”213″ /Last week a title=”It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way/”I kicked things off/a by saying it was time to make this 21-Day Challenge personal. In other words, I asked, what were you done with? What behaviors, conditions or trajectories were you ready to jettison to welcome a healthier, more vital life? I think it’s always critical to identify what isn’t working for us at any given time. When we’re clear on what doesn’t fit our intentions for our lives, we can cleanly let go and a title=”Why You Should Let Yourself Succeed and Go Get the Life You Want” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-you-should-let-yourself-succeed-and-go-get-the-life-you-want/”move forward/a./p
pThat said, I don’t believe change itself comes from negative assessments, and I appreciated readers’ comments last week that affirmed the a title=”The Power of Positive Thinking” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-power-of-positive-thinking/”power of positive language/a. The fact is, when you come at anything in life […]

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Recently, my brother asked an extremely adorable vegetarian to be his wife. She said yes. And I’d like to think that in some small way, my cooking had something to do with it. You see, my brother’s favorite meal growing up was French dip au jus. If there are chicken wings on a menu, they’ll end up on his plate. And I’m pretty sure if he had a choice between ribs and rice pilaf, he’d go with the former.

Luckily, though, his love for meat did not outweigh his love for this girl. And he was totally game to let me, his sister, come up with creative food swaps that kept everyone satisfied, including these faux pulled pork sandwiches. The secret ingredient? Carrots!

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pimg class=”alignright size-full wp-image-53786″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/evaluate.jpg” alt=”Time to evaluate” width=”320″ height=”201″ /I once dated a girl who only went to the gym once a month. She#8217;d do the same workout — a tough, high-intensity circuit using weights, the stationary bike, the stepper, and a few other machines — every single time, and that was it./p
pWhen you asked her about it, her reasoning was that if she could do the workout, she was still fit and that was enough for her. Why go to the gym every day if she was already in shape?/p
pWhile I wouldn#8217;t recommend that methodology emmyself/em, one thing she did have right was regularly assessing her fitness level. This is something that most people #8211; even many of the fitness buffs amongst us #8211; don#8217;t do, and I think that#8217;s a real mistake./p
pWith the a title=”The 2015 Primal Blueprint 21-Day Challenge Contest Page” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-2015-primal-blueprint-21-day-challenge-contest-page/”Challenge/a underway, I thought we#8217;d […]

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pimg class=”alignright size-full wp-image-53773″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/thinkdo.jpg” alt=”thinking and results feedback” width=”320″ height=”213″ /Thisem is a guest post from Dr. Alessandra Wall./em/p
pDescartes once said, “I think therefore I am.” He was discussing the nature of self-awareness and identity. Let’s take that statement and change it a bit to help you understand why despite feeling committed, prepared and supported you might find yourself facing set backs in your a title=”The 2015 Primal Blueprint 30-Day Challenge Begins Now” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-2015-primal-blueprint-21-day-challenge-begins-now/”Primal Blueprint 21-Day Challenge/a. The statement I want you to keep in mind throughout your challenge and as you read on is the following:/p
h3 style=”text-align: center;”#8220;I think therefore I do.#8221;/h3
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pDo you know why you do the things you do, the way you do them? I’ll let you in on a secret… your behaviors are directly linked to your feelings and your thoughts. Actually, most of what we do […]

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pimg class=”alignright size-full wp-image-53764″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-4.png” alt=”Screen Shot 2014-12-30 at 4″ width=”320″ height=”320″ /strongSquatty Potty/strong #8211; You think a title=”Who is Grok?” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/about-2/who-is-grok/”Grok/a took a seat on a porcelain throne when nature called? Of course not! Toilets are emmodern/em inventions. a title=”Squat to Poop” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/squat-poop/”Grok squatted/a, and so should you. Why? Well, squatting opens up the colon for fast and easy elimination, which is said to relieve constipation, straining issues, hemorrhoids, bloating and more. But what are we to do? Is it time for all-out bathroom renovations? No, there’s a simpler solution, and that’s where a title=”Squatty Potty” href=”http://squattypotty.com/” target=”_blank”Squatty Potty/a comes to the rescue. Watch the video below to learn what a Squatty Potty is and win one today by participating in this contest!/p
pstrongThe first 15 participants of this contest will get a free a title=”Squatty Ecco” href=”http://squattypotty.com/squatty-pottys/” target=”_blank”Squatty Slim/a. Retail Value: $50 each.br /
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