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Salt Is Good for You

Mark Sisson on the scientific evidence.

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6/14/2013

10 Obstacles to Losing Weight

And how to overcome them. Article by Mark Sisson.

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4/19/2013

10 Workouts That Don’t Feel Like It

You may be doing more than you realize, says Mark Sisson.

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3/21/2013

10 Workouts That Don't Feel Like Workouts

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3/21/2013

13 Primal Ways To Begin the Day

Try these instead of being coffee-deprived and grouchy, says Mark Sisson.

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3/18/2013

13 Healthy Ways To Begin the Day

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3/18/2013

9 More Reasons You're Not Losing Weight

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3/7/2013

I Knew a Change Had To Be Made

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2/12/2013

I Knew a Change Had To Be Made

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2/12/2013

No Grains Equals No Migraines

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1/31/2013

Is It Primal? – Smoked Salmon, Nutritional Yeast, 5-Hour Energy Drinks, and Other Foods Scrutinized

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1/24/2013

Flab to Fab in 7 Easy Months

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1/10/2013

17 Reasons You're Not Losing Weight

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1/7/2013

21 Simple Things To Do To Prepare for a Successful 2013

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12/27/2012

A Way of Life Has No Finish Line

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12/26/2012

100 Days of Change – My Transformation Story

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12/24/2012

10 Last-Minute Primal Gift Ideas

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12/20/2012

Primal Blueprint Shopping List

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12/17/2012

Dear Mark: Food Fatigue Edition

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12/15/2012

7 Foods You Don't Need To Buy Organic

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12/14/2012

I Have Never Felt Better in My Life

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12/13/2012

I Didn't Know How Bad I Felt Before, Until I Started Feeling So Good!

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12/4/2012

Top 9 Most Important Foods To Buy Organic

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11/29/2012

Hangover Hacks You Can Hang Your Hat On

Mark Sisson on the science, and the easy ways to prevent them.

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11/24/2012

Alcohol: The Good and the Bad

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11/23/2012

Dear Mark: Wheat and Asthma, Minimalist Winter Shoes, High-Fat Rat Cognition Study, and Sun Exposure Timing

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11/20/2012

I Will Never Go Back to the Broken Conventional Wisdom of My Past

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11/19/2012

7 Ways You Might Be Inadvertently Sabotaging a Good Night's Sleep

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11/15/2012

Is It Primal? – Non-Alcoholic Beer, Non-Alcoholic Wine, Gluten-Free Beer, and Other Foods Scrutinized

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11/14/2012

How the Primal Blueprint Helped Me End My Struggle With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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11/9/2012

Flame Thrower: Top 10 Natural Ways To Reduce Inflammation

Mark Sisson has some tales of life-saving transformation.

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11/3/2012

9 Ways You Might Be Inadvertently Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Efforts

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11/1/2012

Is It Primal? – Spirulina, Chlorella, Amaranth, and Other Foods Scrutinized

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10/31/2012

So, Is Organic a Scam?

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10/26/2012

The Problems With Modern Wheat

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10/23/2012

Finally, I Am Me

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10/20/2012

Should You Worry About Genetically Modified Food?

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10/19/2012

Managing a Cheat Day and ‘Raw’ Almonds

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10/13/2012

Why You Shouldn't Burn More Than 4,000 Calories a Week Through Exercise

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10/12/2012

Primal Persistence: Staying the Course Through Life's Ups and Downs

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10/6/2012

How To Cultivate Resilience, or What It Takes To Keep on Keeping On

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10/5/2012

Is Organic a Scam? – Fetal and Child Development and Antibiotic Resistance

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10/4/2012

Choose Your Booze: A Guide to Healthy Drinking

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10/3/2012

I Am Tired of This Hamster Wheel

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10/1/2012

From Sugar-Burner to Fat-Burner: A Transformation Story

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9/24/2012

Exercise Primally – Move, Lift, and Sprint!

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9/22/2012

Shop, Cook, and Dine Primally

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9/19/2012

A Doctor Finds Primal Balance

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9/17/2012

Action Item #1: Eliminate SAD Foods

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9/15/2012

Overcoming the Insurmountable

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9/8/2012

The Primal Blueprint 8 Key Concepts

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9/8/2012

How Common Is Gluten Sensitivity?

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9/6/2012

The Low Carb Flu

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8/31/2012

I Have a New Lease on Life

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8/28/2012

Gender Differences in Fat Metabolism

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8/25/2012

Dear Mark: What Are the Health Benefits of Negative Ions?

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8/24/2012

Not Only Did I Break Past My Plateau, I Demolished It

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8/18/2012

Is Your Olive Oil Really Olive Oil?

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8/17/2012

Are Eggs Really as Bad for Your Arteries as Cigarettes?

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8/16/2012

Dear Mark: Coffee and Insulin, Fat and Post-Workout Meals

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8/15/2012

32 ‘Slow Living’ Inspired Ways to Savor Summer

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8/13/2012

My Healthy Lifestyle Was Killing Me

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8/11/2012

When Listening to Your Body Doesn't Work

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8/7/2012

Primal Evolution: Change Within Weeks, Transformation in Mere Months

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8/6/2012

Should You Increase Carb Intake To Lose Weight?

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8/1/2012

Dark Chocolate, Steak, Bacon, Red Wine

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7/30/2012

We Were 2 Unhealthy People in Fat Suits

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7/28/2012

Sensible Vices

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7/26/2012

Is It Primal?

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7/24/2012

Hungry, Grumpy, Deprived, Frustrated

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7/23/2012

Is Wheat an Addictive Opiate?

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7/20/2012

Fight or Flight?

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7/17/2012

From Cancer to Health

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7/14/2012

From Desperation to Inspiration

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7/7/2012

What Does It Mean To Be ‘Fat-Adapted’?

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7/5/2012

Work the Process, Forget the Results

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7/2/2012

V8, Mezcal, Ezekiel Bread, and More

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6/30/2012

How to Become a Fat-Burning Beast

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6/25/2012

Smart Spice: Cinnamon

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6/22/2012

I Was Constantly Hungry and Sick, Overweight and Over-Medicated

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6/18/2012

What Would You Do in the Middle of the Night?

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6/16/2012

Grilled Eggs?

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6/12/2012

Indoor Work Stinks – Go Outside

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6/11/2012

They Don’t Understand Your Healthy, High-Fat Diet

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6/7/2012

Before You Dive in…

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6/5/2012

Want To Be Kissing Sweet?

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6/2/2012

Help! I Hate To Exercise

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5/30/2012

Are They Primal?

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5/25/2012

Are They Curious, Flabbergasted, Threatened?

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5/23/2012

No More Hard Living for This Rebel Musician

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5/22/2012

Is It Primal To Eat Nuts?

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5/18/2012

Top 10 Junk Foods in Disguise

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5/16/2012

After 37 Years of Obsessions, Insecurity, Binges

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5/14/2012

Desperate, Obese, and Tired

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5/7/2012

10 Good Things To Eat

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5/4/2012

How I Tamed My Blood Sugar and My Hunger

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5/1/2012

Beat the Creep: Gradual Weight Gain Stopped and Reversed

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4/25/2012

Will You Get the ‘Rich Man’s Disease’?

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4/24/2012

A Beer Drinker’s Primal Story

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4/21/2012

Eat Stop Eat?

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4/20/2012

Smoke It, Salt It, Cure It, Pound It

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4/12/2012

What, No Pasta?!

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4/9/2012

Do You Enjoy Your Healthy, Functioning Brain?

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4/4/2012

Fat Is Delicious

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3/31/2012

6 Books I’m Reading Right Now

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3/29/2012

Okay, I Lost the Weight – Now How About the Skin?

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3/26/2012

No More Grains – No More Antacids

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3/24/2012

Will Eating Red Meat Kill You?

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3/15/2012

I Was a 310 lb. Unhappy Guy

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3/12/2012

Can You Go Primal with Food Allergies or Restrictions?

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3/8/2012

Make the Best of the Ice Age

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3/6/2012

Do Joint Supplements Really Help?

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3/1/2012

‘Eat Like a Hunter-Gatherer’

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2/27/2012

The Brighter the Better

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2/25/2012

There’s No Excuse Not To Eat Chocolate

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2/23/2012

Lost Fat, Avoided Knee Surgery, Wore a Bikini Again

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2/20/2012

The Devil Made Me Do It?

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2/17/2012

I Ate Rubbish, Got Bigger, Tried Everything

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2/14/2012

Should You Eat Honey?

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2/9/2012

Eat More Sulfur

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2/8/2012

How To Recover From a Nasty Upset Stomach

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2/4/2012

How Can They Eat So Much Rice and Not Gain Weight?

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2/3/2012

At 53, I’m Leaner and Stronger Than Ever

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1/30/2012

Top 6 Anti-Inflammatory Foods

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1/27/2012

The Joy of Stargazing

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1/25/2012

Drug and Pain Free for the First Time in 10 Years

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1/23/2012

What’s the Cause of Heart Disease?

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1/20/2012

Are Your Canned Goods Safe to Eat?

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1/14/2012

What Is Inflammation and Why Does It Make Us Suffer?

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1/9/2012

What a Difference a Few Months Can Make

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1/7/2012

The Weight Dropped Off Effortlessly

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12/31/2011

Stop the War on Salt

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12/29/2011

On the Fast-Track to Obesity, Diabetes, and Prescription Drugs

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12/23/2011

Cholesterol 101

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12/22/2011

Only 2 Hours of Exercise a Week?

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12/17/2011

10 Christmas Gifts for the Primal Tribe

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12/16/2011

Stand-Up, Kick Off Your Barefoot Shoes

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12/12/2011

Big Agra Has Ruined Your Health

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12/8/2011

So Easy a Caveman Could Do It

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12/6/2011

Feel Bloated, Achy, Sluggish?

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12/3/2011

How To Eat More Fat

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12/1/2011

I Am Forever Changed

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11/26/2011

Primal Pumpkin Pie?

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11/24/2011

Another Problem with Antibiotics

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11/22/2011

It’s Not Just Bacon and Steak

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11/18/2011

Will You Succumb to Temptation?

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11/17/2011

If the Grid Goes Down

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11/12/2011

10 Innovative Uses for Salt

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11/8/2011

8 Unusual Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide

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11/5/2011

30 Primal Hacks

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11/4/2011

My Doctor Couldn’t Believe It

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10/29/2011

Why the 21-Day Total Body Transformation?

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10/24/2011

Vitality, Utility

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10/20/2011

No Beans About It, or Canned Tomatoes Either

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10/14/2011

I Was a Veritable Garbage Disposal

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10/1/2011

How To Deal With the Stumbling Blocks

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9/23/2011

What’s Your Body Telling You Right Now?

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9/19/2011

The 80/20 Rule

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9/16/2011

The Man Who Fell in Love With Bacon

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9/12/2011

The Acid-Reflux Nightmare

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9/8/2011

All Gone in 6 Months

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9/5/2011

What About Dairy and Other Primal Diet Questions

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8/25/2011

Mares Eat Oats and Does Eat Oats

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8/19/2011

Demonizing Red Meat and Bacon

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8/17/2011

Fat Burning and Muscle Confusion

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8/12/2011

Why You Should Avoid Eating Grains

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8/5/2011

How To Build the Health and Strength of Your Feet

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7/29/2011

7 Home Remedies

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7/27/2011

Should We Eat Dirt?

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7/25/2011

8 Natural Ways To Avoid Sunburn

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7/22/2011

Road Trip

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7/18/2011

Let Hunger Happen and Don’t Force Fasting

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7/15/2011

There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Bacon or Butter

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7/9/2011

Even If the Shoe Fits, Forget It

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7/7/2011

7 Old School Ways

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7/1/2011

Ditch the Dark Glasses?

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6/29/2011

The Virtue of Shellfishness

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6/25/2011

What’s the Best Bug Repellent?

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6/20/2011

10 Foods I Couldn’t Live Without

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6/16/2011

Vacations: Are They Good for Your Health?

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6/13/2011

Do We Really Need a Guide to Walking?

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6/10/2011

Did Our Caveman Ancestors Have Better Teeth Than We Do?

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6/6/2011

Your Height and Your Health

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6/1/2011

MeatGlue

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5/28/2011

Eat Fat!

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5/21/2011

Grocery Store Seafood

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5/19/2011

Is Farmed Seafood Safe?

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5/14/2011

Do You Have a Sweet Tooth?

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5/9/2011

We Forget Things

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5/5/2011

Eat These

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4/28/2011

A Beginner’s Herb Garden

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4/26/2011

In Pursuit of Silence

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4/18/2011

16 Tips for Desk Jockeys

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3/31/2011

Bibliotherapy

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3/28/2011

Defending the Golden Green Goddess

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3/24/2011

7 Low-Tech Tools

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3/17/2011

Is Eating Too Much Protein Harmful to Your Kidneys?

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3/2/2011

The Psychology of Food

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2/26/2011

We Need 8 Hours of Uninterrupted Sleep, Right?

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2/24/2011

Opt-In for Physical and Mental Health

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2/15/2011

Is There a Healthy Alternative to Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners?

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2/10/2011

Here’s to Jack LaLanne

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2/4/2011

6 Months of Primal Living

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1/31/2011

What’s in That Stuff, Anyway?

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1/28/2011

How To Make Red Wine Vinegar

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1/26/2011

Grain Pain

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1/21/2011

Why Can Some People Eat Anything and Never Gain an Ounce?

Mark Sisson has the answer.

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1/13/2011

Cooking Under Pressure

Mark Sisson on the magic of an old-fashioned pressure-cooker.

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1/11/2011

17 Ways To Improve Your Sleep

Mark Sisson on getting all the ZZZZZZ's you need.

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1/5/2011

Forget New Year’s Resolutions

First, take stock of how far you've come in the last year, says Mark Sisson.

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1/1/2011

15 Ways To Fight Stress

Mark Sisson offers primal strategies.

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12/30/2010

Attention, Low-Carb Fruit Lovers

Mark Sisson's guide to the best and worst for sugar content and nutritional value.

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12/28/2010

Hordes of Doctors and No Solutions

When they fail, it's time to take health education into your own hands, says Mark Sisson.

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12/25/2010

A Primal Christmas

13 holiday gifts that support the caveman lifestyle.

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12/18/2010

8 Ways To Reduce Your Chemical Load

Mark Sisson on simple and inexpensive ways to reduce the effect of toxins.

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12/14/2010

Sunshine, Vitamin D, and Supplements

Mark Sisson on why it's important to take D3.

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12/9/2010

It Flies in the Face of Conventional Wisdom

But I got my health and youth back thanks to the primal blueprint, says Sonia Yaksich.

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12/2/2010

The Annual Festival of All Things Carb

What's your plan for Thanksgiving?

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11/25/2010

Is It a Yam? Or Is It a Sweet Potato?

Mark Sisson explains the difference, and why it matters primally.

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11/19/2010

Puffy, Bloated, Swollen?

10 natural ways to avoid the inflammation landmine.

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11/5/2010

Is Your Doctor Getting Cash Payouts From Big Pharma?

Search this database of 17,000 doctors (and $257 million in payola) to find out, says Mark Sisson.

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10/21/2010

Erroneous, Unnecessary, Dangerous

Turn off medical TV. It's bad for your health, says Mark Sisson.

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10/19/2010

Are Humans Designed To Live on Grains and Refined Sugar?

No, since they make us fatter and sicker, says Mark Sisson.

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10/14/2010

An Insanely Powerful and Addictive Drug

Mark Sisson on sugar and its many guises.

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10/8/2010

The Glory of Saturated Fat

Mark Sisson on why we need it, and love it.

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9/30/2010

10 Things You (Likely) Don’t Know About Your Immune System

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9/25/2010

10 Small Steps Toward the Cave

Mark Sisson's advice for those starting the primal journey.

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9/22/2010

Meat Candy

Mark Sisson's guide to that savory primal treat, bacon.

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9/17/2010

How To Cook the Perfect Steak

It's just a few easy steps to red-meat nirvana, says Mark Sisson.

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9/13/2010

Choose Your Booze

Caveguy Mark Sisson's guide to healthy drinking.

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9/10/2010

Excess Water and Fat

Primalguy Mark Sisson on getting rid of both.

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9/4/2010

They’re Flat-Out Unhealthy

The caveguy, Mark Sisson, on grains.

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8/30/2010

How To Get the Junk Food Monkey Off Your Back

Mark Sisson explains how your brain responds to different substances.

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8/23/2010

10 Ways To ‘Get Primal’

Caveguy Mark Sisson on the diet and physical activities of our pre-agricultural ancestors.

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8/20/2010

Mmmmm

We love it, and despite a government hate campaign, it plays a key role in the primal diet: Fat.

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8/19/2010

Fit for a Caveman

Mark Sisson's list of delicious, healthy, paleo-snacks.

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8/16/2010

The Great Salt–Blood Pressure Debate

Has the most wonderful seasoning gotten a bad rap?

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8/10/2010

In Praise of Dirt, Dust, Dishevelment

The caveguy, Mark Sisson, on the joys of living with them.

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7/30/2010

Dust Mites, Off-Gassing and What to Do With Your Mattress

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7/15/2010

A Primal Primer: Iodine

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7/13/2010

10 Real-Life Reasons Why the Primal Blueprint Works for Me

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7/3/2010

A Steak a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Mark Sisson on the primal diet.

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3/18/2010

Primal Blueprint

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