Weekend Link Love – Edition 362

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Research of the Week

According to fMRI, stress makes junk food harder to resist.

New safety guidelines for water drinking during exercise: “Using the innate thirst mechanism to guide fluid consumption is a strategy that should limit drinking in excess and developing hyponatremia while providing sufficient fluid to prevent excessive dehydration.”

Social participation in religious organizations is associated with a decline in depressive symptoms, while participation in political organizations is associated with an increase.

Personal pedaling workstations increase worker physical activity, reduce sedentism, improve resting heart rate, and lower body fat.

Poor sleep disrupts our relationships.

New Primal Blueprint Podcasts

Episode 81: Chuck Hixson: Host Brad Kearns sits down with Chuck Hixson, CEO of a company making a revolutionary new recovery device. The Rapid Thermal Exchange cooling glove applies cold water and a vacuum effect to the network of veins in the palm of your hand that regulates body temperature. By wearing the glove, athletes can quickly lower body temperature, increase performance, and make rapid recoveries from intense workouts. In today’s podcast, you’ll learn all about the glove and what it can do for you.

Each week, select Mark’s Daily Apple blog posts are prepared as Primal Blueprint Podcasts. Need to catch up on reading, but don’t have the time? Prefer to listen to articles while on the go? Check out the new blog post podcasts below, and subscribe to the Primal Blueprint Podcast here so you never miss an episode.

• 7 Childhood Activities That Can Make You Healthier and Happier
• Seize the Day: Win a Primal Scholarship
• Introducing PrimalBeat HRV

Also, be sure to check out and subscribe to the (relatively) brand new Primal Endurance Podcast.

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Interesting Blog Posts

We are artists and our lives are the medium.

A nice essay on the solace and simple pleasures found in the forest.

Media, Schmedia

As a kind of Stone Age-Ren Faire experiment, three Neolithic-enthusiasts are hiking across Germany, wearing rough linen tunics and animal skins, eating peas, barley, and lentils, and sleeping under the stars with sacks of straw as bedding.

The FDA approves pretty much every drug it reviews.

A letter to the New England Journal of Medicine warns against the effects GMO-enabled herbicide overuse may have on public health.

Everything Else

Those darn kids and their grass-fed beef.

Rock throwing may have helped make us human.

How an 87-year old former dentist with deteriorating health used weights and intervals to become a 96-year old sprinting champion.

A long read, but worth it for prospective parents: Gut Health in Early Life: Significance of the Gut Microbiota and Nutrition for Development and Future Health.

What happens when you stare into another person’s eyes for ten minutes straight?

The Onion is running articles sponsored by the dairy industry. Still, you can’t deny the greatness of their content.

How to use the surprisingly versatile wok.

Tips and insights from a grass-fed rancher.

Paleo restaurant goes vegan, loyal customers balk, original investors sue.

Recipe Corner

• Want something crispy? Butternut squash chips do the trick.
• Sometimes, you just want some ice cream. Make it very berry paleo ice cream.

Time Capsule

One year ago (Aug 25 – Aug 31)

• Why We Eat: Cravings – Why cravings happen.
• The High Cost of Commuting – The cost of commuting is measured in more than dollars (but dollars count, too).

Comment of the Week

The one and only time I ate at Chipotle, I got a foil-wrapped burrito that was so dry and starchy (wheat, rice, beans) that it practically had to be scraped off the roof of my mouth with a putty knife. I don’t know how people can eat those things.

– It’s only a matter of time: Buy a large burrito, get a free putty knife!

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