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I’m pleased to announce a new resource for all you palo / primal / evolutionary fitness "hacks" & self-experimenters out there. Always remember that you are your own chief authority in health matters and it’s up to you in the end to find your way. Of course, all the blogs, including this one, are here [...]

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If any of you would like to follow along with the summer climbing season on Everest, the FirstAscent Team and their blog is the place to go. Here’s why: I’ve got that same machined aluminum MacBook Pro in the 15″ and 2.66 gig version. I’ve owned dozens of computers over time, but this just smokes anything and everything, including the desktops I’ve owned. The only thing remotely comparable is the previous generation MacBook Pro I owned. I will never, ever go back to PCs.

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In the BBC, and I believe I saw this on Art’s private blog. Short fast sprints ‘cut’ diabetes Rather than slaving away for hours in the gym, people should focus their attention on quick “sprints” with each workout lasting just a few minutes. James Timmons, Heriot-Watt University professor of exercise biology has studied the effects of quick exercise. He recommends 4 x 30 second sprints on an exercise bike three times a week. He said people could reduce their risk of diabetes and heart disease substantially with short, intense workouts – with such “time-efficient” exercising appealing to busy workers. [...] This involved the men going as fast as they could for 30 seconds and then taking a few minutes of complete rest between each sprint. After two weeks, Prof Timmons said the results were “substantial”, with a 23% improvement in insulin function. While his research focused on young men, Prof Timmons said it would work for people of all ages and for both men and women. He said: “This study looked at the way we break down stores of glycogen. “Think about diabetes as being glucose circulating in the blood rather than stored in the muscles where it should be….

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