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Diet & Nutrition

21 Jun

This morning I shared how I’ve changed my approach to stress over the last couple of decades. For me, this meant first addressing the toll of my training. It’s how the Primal Blueprint, in fact, was born. In today’s feature and in this video (with my long-time friend and co-author, Brad Kearns), I talked about...

09:29 / Aging / Diet & Nutrition / Fitness / health challenges / injury/ailment / mobility / Protein / Supplements / videos
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18 Jun

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering several questions drawn from the comment board of last week’s post on fasting vs carb restriction. First, how do I square my recommendations with the successful reports of potato dieters losing weight on a high-carb tuber diet? Second, is Leangains optimal for mass gain? Third, how do...

08:11 / Carbs / dear mark / Diet & Nutrition / fasting / fats / Lift Heavy Things / monounsaturated fats / Resistant Starch / saturated fats / Weight Loss / weight loss plateau
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13 Jun

Both fasting and carb-restriction appear to operate along similar physiological pathways. Both lower carbs. Both increase fat-adaptation. Both have the potential to get you into ketosis. Both lower insulin and blood sugar. But is one better than the other? Are there certain scenarios in which an intermittent fasting protocol works better than a low-carb diet, and...

07:09 / Carbs / Diet & Nutrition / fasting / Low Carb Diet / Mental Health / Weight Loss
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12 Jun

We’ve got some Worker Bee bites—and a contest—coming up later this morning, but in the meantime I’m happy to share a guest post with excellent tips for making your Challenge cooking easier and more efficient.  Today’s guest post is offered up by cooking coach extraordinaire, Katie French. She’s the author of the popular Paleo Cooking Bootcamp...

10:32 / cooking tips / Diet & Nutrition
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06 Jun

As humans, our most important bodily endowment isn’t our claws, sharp teeth, powerful haunches, iron grips, prehensile tails, venomous secretions, or aerosolized musk. It’s the brain. We use it to shape the world around us, to bend physical reality to our will, to manipulate matter and create powerful technological terrors. These days, the human brain...

08:43 / Aging / Diet & Nutrition / fats / Mental Health / monounsaturated fats / omega 3s / Supplements
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04 Jun

For today’s Dear Mark, I’m answering just one question from a reader. What are we to make of the new study purporting to show that saturated fat is the most harmful substance a liver can encounter? Should we remove all traces of it from our diets? Should we eat pure sugar? Quaff soybean oil? How...

08:26 / body fat / calories / dear mark / Diet & Nutrition / fats / Hype / keto / research analysis / saturated fats
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30 May

The tricky thing about fiber is that it’s not a monolith. There are dozens of varieties. Some of them perform similar functions in the body, but others have extremely unique effects. Some rend your colonic lining to stimulate lubrication. Some turn into gelatinous slurries. But we can’t talk about fiber without understanding that the word...

12:03 / Carbs / Diet & Nutrition / Grains / gut health / Hype / prevention / research analysis / Resistant Starch
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28 May

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering a few questions and comments from last week’s post on the carnivore diet. First, Dawn gives us the unfortunate but necessary information that it’s not just the lone star tick who causes red meat allergy. Great. Second, what are 7-Day Adventists so healthy? Is it all because...

09:48 / dear mark / Diet & Nutrition / Protein / Supplements
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