Dear Mark,
I love nut, but they most definitely do NOT love me back! Since going “primal” about 18 months ago, I’ve increased my consumption of nuts and seeds. Well actually, I’ve gone overboard.  (Seems I just can’t have a handful and call it a day.) Now nuts and seeds in virtually any amount cause [...]

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Continue reading → Dear Mark: Soaking Seeds and Nuts

Thanks for the great topic suggestion, Son of Grok. It is interesting that as we rid our body of waste, we seem to do the same for the planet. Funny how that works out. The reduction of artificial wastes and packaging materials is probably the most tangible benefit to the environment, but following the Primal [...]

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Continue reading → Is Living Primal Good for the Environment?

You know the drill. You slept late, your son misplaced his lunchbox, the cat threw up in the flowers. You’re already 10 minutes late for work and there’s nary a minute to scarf down a breakfast, let alone one that a caveman would approve of!
Enter the protein bar – it’s individually packaged, it’s relatively affordable, [...]

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Continue reading → Make Your Own Primal Energy Bars in 10 Easy Steps

Eggs: They Are What Their Mothers Eat
Ah, eggs. We Primals appreciate your delicious creamy yolky goodness and fluffy decadent ivory insides, like so many edible clouds upon whose buoyancy our breakfast relies. You’re good for us and come naturally pre-packaged. What’s not to love?
The myriad terms used to describe them, for one.
Cage free. Organic. All [...]

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Continue reading → Egg Purchasing Guide

The Buckwheat Stops Here
Dear Mark,
Browsing the Crossfit nutrition forums, I recently came across an interesting discussion about buckwheat, a possible Primal-friendly grain alternative. It caught my eye because I’ve been on the lookout for alternatives to pasta and bread ever since I found out that my Standard-American-Diet family will be visiting for an entire week [...]

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Continue reading → Dear Mark: Visting Family - Primal Compromises and Grain Alternatives

Lunch
As a follow up to last week’s Primal Challenge, “Getting Back to Nature,” I thought I’d published a few emails I’ve received from a hardcore Primal Blueprint follower. Talk about getting Primal. This guy is trying it all.
Don’t worry. You don’t have to catch, gut and eat your own rabbits or gather your own raspberries [...]

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Continue reading → A Day in the Life of Modern Grok: An MDA Reader Gets Primal

Lunch
As a follow up to last week’s Primal Challenge, “Getting Back to Nature,” I thought I’d published a few emails I’ve received from a hardcore Primal Blueprint follower. Talk about getting Primal. This guy is trying it all.
Don’t worry. You don’t have to catch, gut and eat your own rabbits or gather your own raspberries [...]

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Continue reading → A Day in the Life of Modern Grok: An MDA Reader Gets Primal

Primal Style
As Primal enthusiasts, we owe it to ourselves to spend time in the great outdoors – early man’s original stomping grounds. Sadly enough, the increasing encroachment of civilization upon nature’s boundaries makes it easy for most people to forget about the wilderness. Opting for the mall or the TV is simply easier and more [...]

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Continue reading → Getting Back to Nature

Primal Pooches
We imagine our many of readers are strict adherents to the Primal Blueprint. You’re downing almonds by the bushel, guzzling fish oil, and avoiding grains like the plague, but what are you feeding Fido? Our bodies have had over ten thousand years to get used to agrarianism – and the stuff is still killing [...]

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Continue reading → The Primal Diet for Dogs

Eat a Bug!
For many of us, it’s the stuff of childhood dares and fraternity hazing. In many cultures around the world, however, they’re considered fine delicacies or just regular daily fare. We’re talking insects or the more vaguely inclusive “bugs”: grubs, worms, grasshoppers, crickets, spiders, scorpions, beetles, termites, worms, ants, and other varieties in the [...]

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Continue reading → Insects: Not Just for Breakfast Anymore

Just the Beginning…
The 30-Day Primal Health Challenge to act “as if” has come to a close. From the updates I have received - from the few that were kind enough to send in weekly results to the dozens of emails I have been sent over the course of the last month from other challenge participants [...]

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Continue reading → 30-Day Primal Health Challenge Final Results

Congratulations to everyone who is participating in the Primal Challenge. If you have any questions or would like to connect with other challenge participants hit us up with a comment.
Here is a brief synopsis of our more vocal challenge particpants’ results for week 3 followed by their own full accounts:
Nkem: Stayed the course with nutrition. [...]

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Continue reading → Primal Health Challenge Week 3 Results

The Prison Workout. New idea? Nah. It’s been around as long as there has been anyone locked up that is looking to stay in shape. Still compelling? Absolutely. Here is MDA’s take on why we think it is worth another look, along with our own variations on this classic routine.
Why We Can Appreciate the Prison [...]

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These feet were made for walkin’…
Reader Peter emailed this new study today after he saw a discussion in which I was participating on Rusty’s site (fitnessblackbook.com) regarding the Maasai diet. Investigators in this new study suggested that one reason that the Maasai (African nomadic cattle farmers) have lower rates of heart [...]

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Continue reading → High Fat and Healthy: The Maasai Keep on Walking

Ok. I admit that this post has a ton of information. But instead of editing or paraphrasing any reader’s results (that just wouldn’t be fair!) I’ve included it all. Pick a participant or two and read them as case studies. This is just a small sample of the people that are taking the challenge (we [...]

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Continue reading → Primal Health Challenge Week 2 Results

Dig In
The New England Journal of Medicine has just come out with perhaps the most definitive comparison of low-fat, Mediterranean and low-carb diets ever, and the findings dovetail very nicely with what we’ve been discussing here recently about the merits of the Primal Blueprint. I think it also addresses some of the concerns shared about [...]

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Continue reading → Unrestricted Low-Carb Diet Wins Hands Down

Almost Too Perfect
Though many of us here tend to frequent farmer’s markets or CSA co-ops for a lot of our regular shopping, we inevitably end up at the grocery store for a few miscellaneous things. Comparing the experiences of the market versus “super”-market has become an interesting exercise in consumer research. Besides the strange and [...]

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Continue reading → On the Problems of Cultivated Fruit

200 Calories is 200 Calories. Right?
“What’s that in the road ahead?”
vs.
“What’s that in the road!? A head!?”
Context is important.
Many people think weight loss is simply about cutting calories. But context counts here, too. Calories do have context and that’s what I want to explore today. Is a calorie from fat the same as a calorie [...]

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Continue reading → The Context of Calories

Post-Marathon Carb Mountain
I’ve been getting a slew of emails lately from marathon runners and other endurance athletes among our group, many in response to our 30-Day Primal Health Challenge. Questions have run the gamut but generally get at how to combine endurance training and Primal Blueprint methodology:
How do I combine a low carb diet with [...]

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Continue reading → Dear Mark: Primal Compromises for Athletes

The all-American breakfast smorgasbord: cold cereal of every variety (from super colon blow to candy coated balls of sugar in the shape of the latest cartoon fad), toast, toaster strudel, bagels, croissants, donuts, coffee cake, pop-tarts, French toast, pancakes, blintzes, crepes, waffles, muffins, scones, hash browns, oatmeal, breakfast bars, breakfast squares, and now even breakfast [...]

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Continue reading → Primal Breakfast Suggestions for People on the Go

There is Light at the End of the Steps
Perhaps you’ve been reading MDA for some time now, finding yourself intrigued, maybe even testing the waters a bit. The Primal Blueprint sounds good to you. It speaks to you. It makes sense. The mind is clearly motivated, but the heart is, well, a bit trepidatious. Maybe [...]

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Continue reading → How to Guide: Making the Switch to Primal Living in 6 Easy Steps