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Mark S. Healthy Living Professional

Malibu, California
Former Iron Man athlete, I currently run an irreverent health blog, and I own my own vitamin... Full Bio
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Dear Mark: Feast or Famine Diet? by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Among the questions I get from MDA readers are those that ask about timely diet trends – you know, the latest regimens highlighted in the media or promoted by high profile sta ... Read on »
Announcement: New Recipe Theme for the Cookbook Contest by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Enter your best Primal Blueprint recipes for your chance to win prizes and be featured in the Reader-Created Cookbook The new theme: Primal Soups! We’ve received some delicio ... Read on »
Announcement: Free Events by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating This is a last minute reminder for two events I’m speaking at in Northern California. The more the merrier so bring your friends and let’s get Primal! Here are the details fo ... Read on »
Weekend Link Love by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Atlas Stoned? Learn how to make your very own giant ball of cement at Wilderness Sports Conditioning. Use it for strength training or for crushing small enemies. Get your fil ... Read on »
Almond Banana Pancakes by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Try as we might, many of us find the temptation of pancakes too hard to resist. Maybe it’s the sweet, buttery aroma of the batter on the griddle or the soft doughy texture, or ... Read on »
Marlboro to Introduce “Smoke Rite” 6 Cig Health Packs by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Smokers rejoice. There is a new, healthier way to smoke, all thanks to the innovators at Altria (formerly known as Philip Morris). Marlboro has just released Smoke Rites, a ne ... Read on »
In Vitro Meat by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating When Winston Churchill, in the 1932 essay “Fifty Years Hence,” mused that “we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growi ... Read on »
Environmental Toxins and Gene Expression by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating It’s the heart of the Primal Blueprint: understanding that our lifestyle factors direct influence the expression of our genetic code. While the DNA itself is set, the structur ... Read on »
Grok Tag by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating There was a time when you could go to any schoolyard and see kids being kids. Kids would run, leap, throw, and exert themselves with the pure joy of uncorrupted youth. They we ... Read on »
Dear Readers by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating From time to time I’ll get an email from a Mark’s Daily Apple reader that just throws me for a loop. It might be esoteric, simply outside of my core knowledge, or just downrig ... Read on »
Weekend Link Love by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating National Geographic asks a familiar question: what we can learn from (living) hunter-gatherers?I’m not the only one slamming The Biggest Loser. The NY Times reveals the dark s ... Read on »
No Oat Oatmeal… It’s No-atmeal! by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating When you’re looking for a protein-packed breakfast, eggs and meat seem like the most obvious choice. But if you go for the most obvious choice every single morning, it’s easy ... Read on »
Getting Primal in the Netherlands by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating As part of our ongoing Primal Blueprint Fitness Video Contest Mark’s Daily Apple reader and competitive CrossFitter Blair Morrison submitted his interpretation of a Primal Blu ... Read on »
Happy Thanksgiving by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The staff and I are taking the day off to honor the holiday, but I didn’t want to let the opportunity slip by without extending my gratitude to you, the MDA community. To all ... Read on »
The Vegetarian Myth by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Wow.It isn’t often that I write book reviews (have I ever? – serious question), but it isn’t often that a truly important book like Lierre Keith’s The Vegetarian Myth pops up ... Read on »
Diet as Dogma by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating People are dogmatic. We’re territorial, stubborn, obstinate, and we cling to our ideologies even as accumulating evidence invalidates them. I sometimes wonder whether there’s ... Read on »
Dear Mark: Insurance and Alternative Therapies by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating One benefit of the national debate over health insurance is the spotlight on health care itself. I don’t pretend to have the answer to the political quagmires, but I have to s ... Read on »
Weekend Link Love by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Jimmy Moore is a low-carb super star. The man pushes harder than most to crack conventional wisdom on his blog, and he just released a new book, 21 Life Lessons From Living Li ... Read on »
Heritage Turkey and Mashed Parsnips by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Thanksgiving is only a few days away and in the United States this means one thing: turkey. No other foods seems to dominate a holiday like this large bird and the mind-boggli ... Read on »
Contest Video: Primal Blueprint Sprint Routine by Mark S. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating As part of our ongoing Primal Blueprint Fitness Video Contest readers Anders, Annika and Rob submitted their interpretation of a Primal Blueprint Sprint Routine (the latest co ... Read on »