pimg class=”alignright” title=”Working Outdoors” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/workingoutdoors.jpg” alt=”workingoutdoors” width=”320″ height=”212″ /We#8217;ve discussed the #8220;a title=”Spiritual Encounters in Nature” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/spiritual-encounters-in-nature/”nature-deficit disorder/a#8221; running rampant throughout contemporary society before. Kids are more likely to control characters in video games who explore vast outdoor worlds (and complain about the graphics #8220;not being realistic enough#8221;) rather than get out and explore the real world themselves (which has excellent graphics, a pretty snazzy physics engine, and killer AI). Adults are likely to go entire days without stopping to smell a flower, pluck a leaf, caress a blade of grass, or even see a shred of foliage. We#8217;ve also written about some of the incredible health benefits that occur once people correct that deficit and go a title=”Forest Bathing” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forest-bathing/”forest bathing/a, or a title=”Getting Back to Nature” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/getting-back-to-nature/”hiking/a, or a title=”The Human-Animal Connection” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-human-animal-connection/”commiserating with animals/a, or even planting a a title=”Gardening is Therapy” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/gardening-therapy/”small garden on their property/a. […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Mmmm… butter.” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/butter-1.jpg” alt=”butter 1″ width=”320″ height=”212″ /A couple weeks back, I wrote about the a title=”Top 8 Most Common Reactions to Your Grain-Free Diet (and How to Respond) ” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/top-8-most-common-reactions-to-your-grain-free-diet-and-how-to-respond/#axzz1wxULs0Vc”top 8 most common reactions you get when people hear you don#8217;t eat grains/a, and I offered up some concise responses to those reactions. It was well received, so I thought I#8217;d do the same thing for #8220;your high-fat diet.#8221; If you thought having to explain your grain-free diet was tough, explaining a high-fat diet #8211; in particular, a high-a title=”A Primal Primer: Animal Fats” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/yet-another-primal-primer-animal-fats/”animal fat/a diet #8211; may seem even harder. At least with a grain-free diet, you#8217;re merely removing something that many hold near and dear to their hearts. It#8217;s #8220;healthy#8221; and #8220;delicious,#8221; sure, but at least you#8217;re not adding something that will actively kill you. Fat emis/em that deadly thing, for many people. […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Cold Water Plunge” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/iceplunge.jpg” alt=”iceplunge” width=”320″ height=”212″ /I#8217;ve always been a self-experimenter, even when I didn#8217;t realize it. Back when I raced competitively, I logged #8211; compulsively #8211; all my training routes, times, and distances. My logging didn#8217;t begin as a grand self-experiment. It was just a way to authenticate my hard work. See, races were their own reward. Beating the other guys? Nothing sweeter. But those were few and far between. To get to those races, I had to train, day in and day out, with nothing tangible to show for it save for sore joints and a bottomless pit for a stomach. Filling those blank spaces with numbers made what I#8217;d done somehow tangible, and the agony of training day in, day out became more bearable./p
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pOf course, patterns emerged in those logs. I#8217;d notice a string of particularly strong training days and think to myself, #8220;What […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Swimmer” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/swimmer.jpg” alt=”swimmer” width=”319″ height=”213″ /Who doesn#8217;t like a lovely day at the pool? Unless you can#8217;t swim, there#8217;s no reason not to love the cool water, the bright sun, the ping pong (every swimming club worth a dime has a ping pong table, or several of them), the face dunking, the high dive, and the chicken fights. But what if something sinister churned within the depths of the chlorinated water? What if by entering that pool you were risking life, limb, and the pristine alabaster of your eyeball? In today#8217;s edition of a title=”Dear Mark” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/dear-mark/”Dear Mark/a, I#8217;ve gone back to the roundup format. I begin with the question of swimming pool chemical safety, follow with a query about washing vegetables, and I finish the post with a short section on carb blocking agents. Sound good?/p
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pI was wondering about possible negative effects of […]

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Cactus Salad” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/cactus_salad.jpg” alt=”cactus salad” width=”320″ height=”212″ /Familiar to some, exotic to others, a title=”10 Perfectly Primal Foods You Probably Haven’t Eaten” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/10-perfectly-primal-foods-you-probably-havent-eaten/#axzz1viXVDGgX”cactus/a paddles (or nopales) have a mild but tart flavor and are surprisingly easy to cook. If you’ve been deterred from eating cactus because of the rumor that it has a slimy texture you should know that this rumor’s only half true. When cut into, raw cactus paddles do ooze a clear, tasteless and odorless gel that has a sticky, slimy texture (similar to aloe vera gel). When cooked, however, the gel disappears and the cactus paddles are crisp but tender./p
pRecipes often suggest boiling the slime away, but skipping this step and throwing the paddles directly onto a hot grill or pan works just as well. The direct heat evaporates the gel pretty quickly. While nopales that haven’t been boiled are a little bit chewier, they […]

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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″ /Dear Mark,/p
pI just wanted to thank you for your hard work and dedication to your blog./p
pI discovered Primal living during my recovery from anorexia. I didn#8217;t give it a real shot until 5 months into recovery. I was just too afraid of all of that fat was going to make me fat!/p
pDuring those 5 months, I gained up to an ideal weight for myself eating 3000-3500 […]

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