Mark’s Daily Apple

23
October
2007

Malibu Fires Update9

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Quick update on our situation:

As many of you know, my company, Primal Nutrition, is based in Malibu. The fires came very close but thankfully no one was hurt. (Our offices are singed - the flames were right there - but everything is O.K.) As of today, Malibu is still out of commission, which means business is also shut down for the time being. We’ll be posting updates here and doing what we can via email, but phones are out and internet access is really limited. If you happen to be a customer of Primal in addition to being a reader of MDA, thanks for your patience. The most important thing, of course, is that everyone is safe.

Posted: Announcements

27
July
2007

Updates! I Need Updates!1

At your recommendation, we’ve added a few more excellent blogs to the blogroll. Be sure to check out the updated list.

Thanks to all of you who have participated in the fruit bowl submissions. We have several highly-edible produce pictures from you so far. (They sure look a lot better than mine. I am clearly camera-challenged. I’m waiting for the drug to fix this condition.) Next week we’ll be sharing them, so if you’d still like to participate, send those pics in! Just think: your fruit bowl could be famous! Contain your excitement, people.

The stirring post about the appalling choices we make - buying “fancy” water vs. saving a dying child from dehydration - gets an update. Aquafina: thumbs down.

Mark’s published some excellent and controversial (but of course) posts on fitness and sports around the web. For all you runners, ex-runners and fitness freaks, here’s a sampling, complete with teasers:

Doping in Sport

“There are three main points I want to make here: first, that it is impossible to fairly police and adjudicate drugs in sport; second, that the notion of a â€œlevel playing fieldâ€ is a farce and, finally, that the performance requirements set by the federations at the elite level of sport almost demand access to certain â€œbanned substancesâ€ in order to assure the health and vitality of the athlete throughout his or her career and â€“ more importantly â€“ into his or her life after competition.”

Hitting the Links0

Hey gang, I’m off to Dallas for a couple days on business, but you’re in great hands with the Bees. I’m confident you’ll all find plenty of trouble to get into while I’m away. Quick FYI: I’m working on a whale of a proposal for publication next week. I’d intended to make it a two-fer and publish the first part today in lieu of Primal Health, because it’s much lengthier than what I typically publish (yes, that’s possible). Suffice it to say I’m not mincing any words…but there are plenty of them. At any rate, the health care system is a hot topic, and a critical one, and there are all kinds of conversations for new proposals going on in the blogosphere. I hope you’ll come back next Wednesday to check out my radical suggestion. I guarantee you’ll have something to say about it.

In the meantime, a few good links:

Getting Off the Treadmill of Life

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (author’s reply to this ongoing debate)

Have you ordered your Fuming Fuji mug?

Posted: Announcements

17
July
2007

MDA Blogroll Update (finally)10

So much in love with blog changes…

Glad you’re enjoying the new and improved comment structure. Thanks for the constructive feedback, all. In the spirit of healthy changes, here’s the updated MDA blogroll. If you think there’s a great blog I’m evidently clueless about, please give me a shout and I’ll check it out.

General Health, Health Care, Lifestyles, and Perspectives:

The Cheerful Oncologist

Livin’ La Vida Low Carb

Weight Loss, Diet, Nutrition, Food:

Burning the Scale

Diet Blog

Waisted in the Wasteland

Laurel on Health Food

Weight of the Evidence

Fitness and Body:

The BradVentures

Complete Running

Slow Twitch

Lean and Hungry Fitness

Arthur De Vany

Body Hack

The Fitness Insider

Science and World:

Adventures in Ethics and Science

The Mind:

Personal Improvement and Life Hacks:

The Bigs*, Marketing, and The Man:

The Last Psychiatrist

Around the Web:

If I forgot you, please let me know.

UPDATE 7/24/07:

Six Until Me (great D-blogging)

Fitness Destinations (daily fitness tips)

Dr. Briffa (a good look at good health)

UPDATE 7/27/07:

60 in 3 (weight loss journey)

*Pharma, Agra, Puff, Moo

Posted: Announcements, Health

16
July
2007

Aaaaand We’re Back5

Howdy, all! No doubt you noticed the blog was out of commission for a few days. Our programmers were hard at work restructuring our comment system. You’ll find the blog is much, much easier to participate in now.

Here’s what’s going on:

Previously, the blog was designed with an attached (”bridged”) vbulletin forum. All blog posts showed up in a relevant section of the forums…er, fora. To comment on a blog post, you had to be a registered member of the forum first. This offered a number of benefits, but also some limitations. While the forum provides a community-like space for frequent readers to get to know each other, new readers who simply wanted to share a quick thought on a post weren’t havin’ it. So we’ve come up with a great solution that gives you the best of both worlds (genius, I tell you). To comment on a post, simply click “Comments” at the bottom of the post. Voila, comment away! You’ll simply have to provide your name and email, and your website if you have one. Your email stays private.

We still have the forum, which you can navigate to by clicking “Forum” up yonder or by typing www.marksdailyapple.com/forums/ into your browser’s URL window. We’re keeping the forum for several reasons:

1) It’s fun. You can start your own threads or even write your own posts (and pimp your own blog!). You can expand upon any blog post or take it in a new direction - basically, the forum is for you! Moving forward, commenting on posts will be a lot easier and registration-free, but we’ll all still be hanging out in the forum daily, so no worries there!

2) You get the weekly email newsletter. The newsletter includes the “best of” from the week, which is handy if you don’t always have time to check the blog daily or still haven’t gotten with the program and hooked up your RSS reader! The weekly email usually includes an extra recipe, fun link or other bonus tidbit you won’t get here at the blog.

3) We’ve also kept the forum so all the many thousands of comments on past blog posts didn’t get lost in the shuffle - that would be tragic! They’re all still there, archived in the Blog Forum section at the top of the page. This might make things appear a little funky for you longtime readers who are used to comments being located in the blog forum. In fact, you can already see the changes: scroll down the Mark’s Daily Apple main page and you’ll notice that many posts appear to have no comments now (hey, what happened to my comments!?!). Don’t worry - the comments are still “there” - they’re simply archived in the forum. From now on, comments will be visible on the main blog page only - not in the forum. The transition is really very simple and everything is a lot easier now (cool!). Go ahead, comment on this post. See how easy that is?

Commenting rules:

The blog is now your oyster, so don’t hold back. That said, keep it civil, and let’s not feed any trolls!

Posted: Announcements, Health

Malibu Fires Update9

Updates! I Need Updates!1

Hitting the Links0

MDA Blogroll Update (finally)10

Aaaaand We’re Back5

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