pimg class=”alignright” alt=”grokgift2″ src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/grokgift2.jpg” width=”320″ height=”212″ title=”grokgift2 photo” /I do a gift list every year on Mark#8217;s Daily Apple, and each time I try to put a fresh spin on it. a title=”10 Holiday Gifts for a Healthy Lifestyle” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/10-holiday-gifts-for-a-healthy-lifestyle/”Last year/a, each of the a title=”The Definitive Guide to the Primal Blueprint” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/definitive-guide-primal-blueprint/”10 Primal Blueprint Laws/a got a corresponding gift. a title=”13 Holiday Gifts to Support a Primal Lifestyle” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/13-holiday-gifts-to-support-a-primal-lifestyle/”Two years back/a, I separated the gifts into stocking stuffers and bigger ticket items. This year, since it#8217;s getting to be that time, and lots of you have waited til the last minute, I#8217;ve put together a list of last-minute gift ideas. These are items that, if ordered by today, should arrive (at least in the continental US) by the 24th of December. Unlike most last-minute gifts, these are actually legitimately good and useful items that any Primal (or otherwise health […]

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This is the time of year where several viruses are going around. You can avoid catching the majority of viruses you are exposed to, if your immune system is strong enough. Most people focus on vitamins, which is a good start, but here are a list of foods you may want to add to your diet as well.

Yogurt
Wheat Germ
Mushrooms
Garlic
Tea
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Cinnamon

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I found an article that shows how certain activities can take 30 minutes off of your life. The positive thing is that certain activities can add an hour back to your life.

“Warning: The following prime time television programs could shave 30 minutes off your life.”
Using data from other studies, he calculated that the following daily activities that he says could shave 30 minutes from your life: Smoking 2 cigarettes Drinking 2 extra glasses of alcohol Eating 1 hamburger Watching 2 hours of television Being 11 pounds overweight.

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I love kettle corn, but never considered it a healthy snack. I found a recipe online that looks like it could be a replacement the typical microwave popcorn.

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons coconut oil
6 tablespoons popcorn
2 tablespoons raw brown sugar
Kosher salt to taste

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pimg class=”alignright” alt=”geneticdisease” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/geneticdisease.jpg” width=”319″ height=”211″ title=”geneticdisease photo” /a title=”How Much Have Human Dietary Requirements Evolved in the Last 10,000 Years?” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/are-humans-still-evolving/”Earlier this year/a, I explored the #8220;evolution#8221; of human dietary requirements in the last 10,000 years by examining some of the SNPs #8211; single nucleotide polymorphisms, or variations in genetic sequences #8211; that relate to diet and nutrition. I concluded that while certain genetic changes to the way we process certain foods have arisen in certain populations, for the most part we#8217;re still best off eating from an ancestral, a title=”The Definitive Guide to the Primal Eating Plan” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/definitive-guide-to-the-primal-eating-plan/”Primal spread/a of animals, sea creatures, and plant life. Nothing has changed on that front in my mind, but people are still understandably curious about their genetic predispositions toward various conditions, and, with the recent a title=”Genome Mapping Now Only $99″ href=”http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/12/13/genome_mapping_99_reduced_price_for_dna_analysis_service.html” target=”_blank”reduction in price/a for SNP sequencing from a title=”23andMe” […]

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