Here's a link to Mark Sisson's Blog, Mark's Daily Apple where you can get the scoop on going primal. This is a 30-day challenge to a healthier you. Here also is a link to a flyer you can post on your refrigerator.

Now comes 'disclaimer' time. I don't subscribe to Mark's whole caveman deal, and diets from 100,000 years ago; I don't buy into the whole evolution thing. But! Everything I've read elsewhere bears out Mark's conclusions as to diet and exercise; what is optimum and what should be avoided at all costs.

All this comes from an excellent book called Primal Blueprint, by Mark Sisson. This is a very detailed read-- lots of background and supporting data. The diet will be the hardest thing you try to do. Why? Because the diet is 'primal'... it harkens back to the days before the cultivation of grains. Can you imagine NOT eating bread? Cereal? ANYTHING with some sort of grain in it? Including beans and legumes? It's not easy to do. But the ultimate benefit to your body and overall health is enormous. I credit this approach to much of my own gains, or rather, loses.

Can you swear off ALL grains, beans & legumes for 30 days?


At Mark's Daily Apple, there's an ad at the top of the right column where you can receive a free 92-page eBook that outlines the whole Primal experience without all the chemistry lessons and nutrient breakdowns in the big book. Just give him your email address and you'll get a download link. This eBook is just enough to get you curious, I think... enough to where you just may decide you need to buy the book. I do get emails from Mark once or twice a week, because of this.

But Going Primal is much more than just diet. Here's an interesting bit of trivia. Did you know that going barefoot is healthier for you than wearing shoes? Shoes, in the long run, actually do more harm than good.

Getting and staying physically healthy is the best way to reach your potential in all the other thing(s) God has called you to do.