pimg class=”alignright” title=”Brain” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2010/brain.jpg” alt=”brain” width=”320″ height=”240″ /It feels good to get back to our regularly scheduled Monday morning programming. #8220;a title=”Dear Mark Category” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/dear-mark/”Dear Mark/a#8221; is a way for me to keep my finger on the pulse of the community, to respond quickly and directly to any issues that may arise. I try to keep abreast of all this stuff, but there#8217;s a lot, and some will inevitably slip through the cracks. When that happens, you guys pick up the slack and keep me honest and informed. These Mondays give me a chance to respond to the things I would have otherwise missed or put off until another time. Thanks for that./p
pThis past week, I received a massive influx of emails from readers worried about the results of a new study. I figured it was a good idea to address it. Here are a few of the messages:/p
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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Fajita Frittata with Avocado Salsa ” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2010/frittata2.jpg” alt=”frittata2″ width=”320″ height=”235″ /There are a million ways to prepare and flavor a title=”Egg Purchasing Guide” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/egg-purchasing-guide/”eggs/a, and yet, how often do you end up making the same old scramble or omelet? Early mornings usually aren’t an ideal time to try out new recipes, which is one reason it’s so easy to dig oneself deep into a breakfast rut. If the thought of eating breakfast is starting to make you groan rather than grin, then it’s high time to change things up./p
pA emFajita Frittata with Avocado Salsa/em brings bold new flavor to breakfast without being overly complicated. Seasoned steak and peppers are sautéed and then quickly baked with eggs and topped with an eye-opening avocado salsa. The result is a flavorful and healthy breakfast that can be sliced into portions for the whole family and eaten at home or on the […]

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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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pDear Mark, /p
pI have had fast, great success with the Primal lifestyle and I would like to add my story to your growing library in order to encourage others who have lost hope of ever getting that middle-age weight back off./p
pFor most of my life, I kept myself in fairly good condition. I was a 1979 graduate of The Citadel, with military experience at Fort Bragg, […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”What is Inflammation?” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2010/inflammation.jpg” alt=”inflammation” width=”320″ height=”212″ /a title=”What’s All This Talk About Inflammation?” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/inflammation/#axzz1ibIFHx9q”Inflammation/a is one of those words that people use without really thinking about its actual meaning. So today we#8217;re going to take a bit of a break from the a title=”How To Interpret Cholesterol Test Results” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-interpret-cholesterol-test-results/#axzz1ibIWOByX”blood lipid/a series to cover inflammation. In later posts, I#8217;ll dig deeper into how the inflammatory response works with stuff like exercise and heart disease, but for now, I#8217;ll just get the basics out there./p
pExistence is suffering, according to certain schools of thought. I don#8217;t know that I#8217;d go quite that far, but I would emphatically state that anyone who spends a modicum of sentient time in the space time continuum we call existence is gonna experience some unpleasantness. A bump on the knee, a bacterial infection, an acute injury, a persistent illness, a death of a loved […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”DNA” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2010/dnaonaplate.jpg” alt=”dnaonaplate” width=”320″ height=”212″ /A hallmark of the a title=”Definitive Guide: Primal Blueprint” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/definitive-guide-primal-blueprint/#axzz1iWEeOFQF”Primal Blueprint/a is that our genetics were shaped by our ancestral environment. That the foods to which we had access, the amount of a title=”Vitamin D: Sun Exposure, Supplementation and Doses” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/vitamin-d-sun-exposure-supplementation-and-doses/”sun/a and a title=”15 Ways to Beat Stress” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/15-ways-to-fight-stress/”stress/a and a href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-definitive-guide-to-sleep/”sleep/a to which our bodies became accustomed, the a title=”Primal Blueprint Fitness” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-fitness/”movement patterns/a in which we engaged represented environmental factors that exerted selective pressure on our genetic makeup and phenotypic expression to make us who we are today. As a result, heeding those environmental factors generally results in excellent health. And, even more importantly, many evolutionarily novel environmental factors #8211; like a title=”Why Grains Are Unhealthy” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-grains-are-unhealthy/”grains/a, refined a title=”The Definitive Guide to Sugar” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-definitive-guide-to-sugar/#axzz1iWFLYgJp”sugar/a, and a title=”The Definitive Guide to Oils” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/healthy-oils/”high omega-6 vegetable oils/a (plus chronic stress, poor sleep, […]

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pa title=”Amazon.com: The Primal Blueprint Paperback” href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982207786/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8amp;tag=marsdaiapp07-20amp;linkCode=as2amp;camp=1789amp;creative=390957amp;creativeASIN=0982207786″ target=”_blank”img class=”alignright” title=”The Primal Blueprint: Updated and Expanded” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2010/3D_paperbackPB2.jpg” alt=”3D paperbackPB2″ width=”286″ height=”358″ //aWith strong sales of the original hardcover a title=”Amazon.com: The Primal Blueprint Hardcover” href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982207700/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8amp;tag=marsdaiapp07-20amp;linkCode=as2amp;camp=1789amp;creative=390957amp;creativeASIN=0982207700″ target=”_blank”emPrimal Blueprint/em/a book over the past three years, I was honored by a request from mainstream retailers (a title=”Amazon.com: The Primal Blueprint Paperback” href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982207786/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8amp;tag=marsdaiapp07-20amp;linkCode=as2amp;camp=1789amp;creative=390957amp;creativeASIN=0982207786″ target=”_blank”Amazon/a, a title=”Barnes amp; Noble: The Primal Blueprint Paperback” href=”http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=S6ehQeGoUWkamp;offerid=239662.9780982207789amp;type=2amp;subid=0″ target=”_blank”Barnes amp; Noble/a, etc.) to produce the emPrimal Blueprint/em in paperback. Piece of cake, right? Get rid of those couple annoying typos, edit a bit here and there, then fire up the presses, right? Not quite. In the past few years, plenty has happened to further shape and refine the Primal philosophy. Much of this progress has come from the amazing contribution of the Primal/paleo/evolutionary health community: lively commenting and blogging on the Internet, and the magic of live connections at […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Go Primal in 2012″ src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2010/newyearresolution2.jpg” alt=”newyearresolution2″ width=”319″ height=”214″ /Happy New Year, everyone! Is everyone pumped for 2012? Resolutions made and in action yet?/p
pI’m coming at the new year with big plans, the first of which is a brand spankin’ new Challenge. I’ll get to that in a minute, but let me first say a few words about the power of resolutions./p
pExperts tell us that a title=”How To Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick” href=”http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98738130″ target=”_blank”those who make resolutions are literally ten times more likely to achieve their goals/a than those who are interested in change but don’t make a specific, concrete commitment. Now that’s reason to a title=”Reflect, Regroup, Resolve” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/reflect-regroup-resolve/”resolve/a. Sure, motivation can and does wane. A little less than half of those who make resolutions are still committed to the a title=”It’s a Journey, Not a Race” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/its-a-journey-not-a-race/”journey/a six months down the road, but there’s plenty we […]

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