pimg class=”alignright” title=”Sprint” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/sprint4.jpg” alt=”sprint4″ width=”319″ height=”198″ /Last week, I covered a glaring deficit in the lives of most modern people: the a title=”Why We Don’t Walk Anymore (plus a Primal Health Challenge) Read more: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-we-dont-walk-anymore/#ixzz1uEhMT9Q7″ href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-we-dont-walk-anymore/#axzz1uDtFyBvA” target=”_blank”lack of walking/a. And it#8217;s not just the #8220;normal#8221; people who aren#8217;t walking enough; two thirds of those readers who took the poll get fewer than five hours of a title=”The Definitive Guide to Walking” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-definitive-guide-to-walking/”slow easy movement/a each week. Since everyone walks at least a few hundred steps a day, people are generally aware #8211; among even the general population #8211; that people just don#8217;t walk anymore. They might not think that#8217;s a true problem, but they#8217;re definitely aware of it. Today, I want to discuss another glaring (in my eyes) deficit in our modern lives: the lack of sprinting./p
pAt first glance, this might seem ludicrous. Sprinting? Sure, it#8217;s a […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Night Eating” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/nighteating2.jpg” alt=”nighteating2″ width=”319″ height=”239″ /There#8217;s nothing quite so powerful as the urge to eat. Being living organisms that require sustenance and nutrition, we find it difficult to resist. It#8217;s not like smoking, or sex, or drugs, which you can technically avoid and still live, because they aren#8217;t really required for an individual#8217;s survival. No, food is an absolute necessity. So what happens when that basic human requirement for life #8211; the need to eat something #8211; conflicts with another important factor in health #8211; the need to sleep? Today#8217;s edition of a title=”Dear Mark” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/dear-mark/”Dear Mark/a deals with exactly that: night-eating syndrome, a real and extremely frustrating eating disorder in which the afflicted awaken during the night, compelled to eat everything and anything. As you#8217;ll see from the following question, when you wake up at 3 AM with a raw, preternatural hunger gnawing at your very […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Lemon-Parsley Brisket” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/brisket2.jpg” alt=”brisket2″ width=”320″ height=”212″ /There’s no shortage of a title=”Tender Braised Brisket with Carmelized Onions and Tomatoes” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/tender-braised-brisket-with-carmelized-onions-and-tomatoes/”braised brisket recipes/a out there, each claiming to be the tastiest way to coax a tough piece of meat into a tender, melt-in-your-mouth meal. Most of these recipes are very good, but they also tend to be very similar. The meat cooks in some blend of wine/tomatoes/broth (and often, a sweet sauce of some sort from a jar) and then emerges hours later smothered in a thick, rich coating./p
pThis recipe for emLemon-Parsley Brisket/em gives brisket a makeover, changing the flavor entirely. Lemon is so often used with fish and poultry that it might seem like an odd choice for a big chunk of red meat. It turns out to be the perfect accent though, adding a light, zesty flavor to every bite. Combine the lemon – both its […]

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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″ /For most of my adult life I’ve been called many things, but “skinny” has taken some getting use to./p
pFor years I repeatedly followed the conventional ritual of low-fat, low-calorie dieting paired with exercise to lose weight. With each attempt I would lose weight, sometimes as much as a few dozen pounds at a time. However, constant hunger eventually won out over my best efforts to eat […]

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If my future telling software is accurate then the on-line community is going to be BUZZING about one particular new study coming out.
After all, the subjects in the study are practically celebrities.
This particular study is on a group of people in “A nationally televised weight loss reality TV show where participants are voted off weekly”
Gee — I have no idea what show that could be
Anyways, here is what I want you to look for in the coming months as a result of this study’s publication:
Really distorted scaremongering.
Here’s why:
In this study, after 30 weeks of dieting and exercise, the average Basal Metabolic Rate of the subjects decreased. And, it decreased to significant degree.
Bad study design? No, this was a well designed study, with excellent methods.
So…metabolic slow down? Probably not.
I took the data of all the participants and then used predictive equations to figure what we think their metabolic rates […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

pimg class=”alignright” title=”Pregnant” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/pregnant3.jpg” alt=”pregnant3″ width=”320″ height=”212″ /emThis is a guest post from Chris Kresser of a title=”ChrisKresser.com” href=”http://chriskresser.com/” target=”_blank”ChrisKresser.com/a./em/p
pAs a clinician with a special interest in fertility and pregnancy nutrition, two of the most common questions my patients ask are:/p
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liIs a Paleo/Primal Blueprint diet safe during pregnancy?/li
liWhat are the most important foods to eat for boosting fertility and ensuring a healthy pregnancy?/li
/ul
pI’m going to answer these questions in this article. But before I do, let’s first take a moment to discuss the importance of proper nutrition for fertility and pregnancy./p
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pNumerous factors determine our health as adults, including nutrition, exercise, lifestyle and genetics. But recent research suggests another powerful influence on lifelong health: our mother’s nutritional status during (and even before) her pregnancy./p
pIn fact, some researchers now believe the 9 months we spend in the womb are the most consequential period of our lives, permanently influencing the wiring […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Honk. Honk.” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/traffic.jpg” alt=”traffic” width=”320″ height=”212″ /How many steps do you walk every day? Do you hit a title=”10,000 Steps a Day” href=”http://www.thewalkingsite.com/10000steps.html” target=”_blank”10,000 steps/a, which experts recommend and is about 5 miles#8217; worth? Do you match the a title=”Dear Mark: Egg Shell Calcium, Fully Hydrogenated Oils, HG Walking, Gorging, and Frozen Produce Read more: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-egg-shell-calcium-fully-hydrogenated-oils-hg-walking-gorging-and-frozen-produce/#ixzz1tZN7BbCl” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-egg-shell-calcium-fully-hydrogenated-oils-hg-walking-gorging-and-frozen-produce/#axzz1tY4RQVyq”daily walking of a Hadza man or woman/a (8.3 or 5.5 km/day, respectively)? If you#8217;re anything like the average American, you#8217;re doing a title=”Pedometer-Measured Physical Activity and Health Behaviors in U.S. Adults ” href=”http://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/2010/10000/Pedometer_Measured_Physical_Activity_and_Health.4.aspx” target=”_blank”5,117 steps a day/a, well shy of the 10,000 step mark and flirting dangerously with a formal sedentary classification. But we#8217;re not alone (though we#8217;re the worst). Of the four industrialized countries studied, not a single one found the mark. The Australians seem to come close, walking 9,695 steps a day. The Swiss follow with 9,650, and the […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Dried Tomatoes” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/driedtomatoes.jpg” alt=”driedtomatoes” width=”319″ height=”211″ /Vegetables can be hard enough to work into our diet without other factors making it even more difficult. Either we#8217;re stuck with nutrient-sparse, weeks-old produce that has lost all semblance of flavor (but it#8217;s certainly affordable!), or we#8217;re inundated with a countertop full of beautiful vegetation straight from the a title=”How to Shop a Farmers’ Market” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/”farmers#8217; market/a that we can#8217;t hope to consume in time. You think convincing a ten year old to eat a plate of fresh sauteed kale is hard? Try getting a ten year old to eat a plate of sauteed withered kale that#8217;s been sitting in the fridge for a week. And what about cooked vegetables versus raw? Some say that raw produce is the only way to eat it, that if you cook a carrot you#8217;re rendering its nutritional content null and void. Is it really […]

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