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		<title>Fruits, Vegetables, and Pesticides (Infographic)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Csonka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nutrition / Ancestral Diets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know a balanced diet can benefit from a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables, but these seemingly healthy choices just might be full of pesticides. Take a look at this infographic to find out what else you're consuming when you bite into an apple.]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing Extremes: Are Severely Proportioned Macronutrient Ratios Appropriate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 20:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Csonka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nutrition / Ancestral Diets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the ancestral health community, one of the longest standing debates is that over the appropriate macronutrient levels of protein, fat, and carbohydrate which people should eat. Riding the wave of the ancestral movement, has been an amelioration of dietary fats. I wouldn't say the mainstream has really caught on yet, but the tide is certainly shifting.

Within the paleo community, there is almost the opposite going on, where carbohydrates are shifting somewhere between poison and panacea. Thought-leaders like Gary Taubes and Dr. Robert Lustig, have painted a picture where carbohydrate, probably more so sugar, when eaten to excess can cause severe health issues (type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, etc). On the other hand, a noticeably increasing cadre of bloggers and researchers are doing a 180 degree turn, and placing more emphasis on issues related to carbohydrate deficiency, such as thyroid health.

What I have observed, is a not insignificant amount of people who eat diets which hover around near total exclusion of either carbs or fats. You have the 80-10-10's (ratio of carbs to protein to fat), and then there are the neo-caveman carnivores, emulating a supposed Inuit diet or eating just meat and fat.

Are these types of diets advisable?]]></description>
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		<title>Audio Interview With Dr. Brad From the Paleo “30 Day Challenge”</title>
		<link>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/audio-interview-with-dr-brad-from-the-paleo-30-day-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/audio-interview-with-dr-brad-from-the-paleo-30-day-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Csonka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nutrition / Ancestral Diets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paleo diet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/?p=6860</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of chatting over the phone with Dr. Brad Fackrell, the organizer of paleo30daychallenge.com. He's a really down to earth guy and I think we really hit it off, talking about a wide range of topics going all the way back to when I first got into evolutionary health &#038; fitness, to more recent events like this year's paleo community survey and my new eBook. Just for listening he's giving you some pretty awesome paleo stuff, so be sure to give it a listen.]]></description>
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		<title>Impostors and Terror Plots: Why a Cruise Ship Prank is a Worrying Sign That Paleo is Sunk</title>
		<link>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/impostors-and-terror-plots-why-a-cruise-ship-prank-is-a-worrying-sign-that-paleo-is-sunk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 04:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Csonka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nutrition / Ancestral Diets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paleo community]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/?p=6830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week the 5th Annual Low Carb Cruise was marred by controversy when the much talked-about Jack Kruse, M.D. was implicated in a terror threat involving the Carnival cruise ship on which it was held.

Galveston Police, the FBI, Homeland Security, and the Coast Guard were brought in to investigate, and Dr. Kruse was ultimately cleared of suspicion, though not before being removed from the cruise ship and thus missing his planned seminar. [1] Allegedly, the threats were made by a Twitter account impersonating the doctor, under the handle "shitkrusesays", and which as of this time Monday evening is apparently deactivated.]]></description>
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		<title>5 Bad Reasons to Not Exercise (And Why Our Brains Use Them)</title>
		<link>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/5-bad-reasons-to-not-exercise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Csonka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Functional Fitness / Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[functional fitness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/?p=6774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't blame people for not wanting to exercise, or start up some new fitness regimen. In truth, the odds are stacked up against you such that your New Years resolutions will never get started. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense that we as an animal are genetically predisposed to not exert ourselves anymore than necessary.

But while the innate reasons people probably avoid exercising are rooted in our evolutionary DNA, the actual excuses we often use can be easily countered. The trick is to recognize our biologically inspired behaviors, and change the way we approach fitness so as to avoid the mental pitfalls which typically keep people from exercising.]]></description>
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		<title>3 Reasons Running Barefoot on Concrete is Actually Nicer Than Grass</title>
		<link>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/3-reasons-running-barefoot-on-concrete-is-actually-nicer-than-grass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Csonka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barefoot / Minimalist Footwear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barefoot Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[running]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/?p=6718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most frequently used arguments against barefoot running goes something like this: "Sure, humans didn't evolve to wear thickly cushioned shoes, but they also didn't evolve to deal with habitats covered in concrete and asphalt." I'll grant you that, the substance of concrete has only been around for a few thousand years, and used as a substrate in walking paths or roads for a few hundred (although stone roadways go all the way back to the ancient Romans).

But, although I think it is misguided to assume that humans cannot handle running on hard surfaces like concrete (not least of all because the world was full of habitable environments that weren't covered in squishy grass), I also feel there are plenty of reasons why running on surfaces like concrete is actually nicer than the grassy alternative.]]></description>
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		<title>Ancestral vs. Paleo. How Important Are the Words We Use to Describe Our Movement?</title>
		<link>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/ancestral-vs-paleo-how-important-are-the-words-we-use-to-describe-our-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Csonka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nutrition / Ancestral Diets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancestral diets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancestral health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paleo diet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/?p=6268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Language is important. Linguistics, speech, terminology, taxonomy, nomenclature, it seems like there is a whole vocabulary (another language term) for just talking about words. It's a key component of all of our daily lives, and probably one of the most important characteristics of the human species.

With that being said, it should be a given that choosing one's words properly is essential for ensuring successful communication. A message can easily become confusing or misunderstood if inappropriate terminology is used during a conversation. You don't need to have a marketing degree to figure that out.

It occurred to me that there is a great deal ambiguity when it comes to evolutionary health and fitness, specifically in regard to diets. I'm talking precisely about the paleo diet, and the very nature of its name, how it came to being, and what it entails.]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Paleo Community Survey Results Released</title>
		<link>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/2012-paleo-community-survey-results-released/</link>
		<comments>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/2012-paleo-community-survey-results-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Csonka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nutrition / Ancestral Diets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paleo diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, I'd like to say thank you to everybody who participated in this year's paleo community survey, especially those who helped to get the word out to others by sharing links and writing blog posts. I think the survey went off pretty well, and we were able to collect a great amount of data. I think the suggestions for changes from last year worked out superbly, and I received a couple of reports/emails from people having difficulty. Links to the different survey report sections are provided in the this article.]]></description>
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		<title>New Ancestral Eating Guide, and Future Projects</title>
		<link>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/new-ancestral-eating-guide-and-future-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/new-ancestral-eating-guide-and-future-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Csonka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nutrition / Ancestral Diets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancestral diets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paleo diet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/?p=6584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I’m announcing the release of my first digital information product. This will be the first of many to come, each focusing on a different topic, and most likely to be in an eBook format. The topics will of course be highly relevant to the various subjects I write about here at Naturally Engineered, including but not limited to: ancestral eating, barefoot running, sleep quality, etc.]]></description>
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		<title>Common Running Injuries (Infographic)</title>
		<link>http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/common-running-injuries-infographic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Csonka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barefoot / Minimalist Footwear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barefoot Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infographic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[running]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think this infographic (from smoothfitness.com) does a pretty good job of identifying the major injuries that runners could potentially encounter. I know that personally I have experienced the patellofemoral pain syndrome as well as hamstring strains, but the runners knee was definitely the most aggravating. I attribute my specific case to excessive heel striking, and overuse due to running more than my body was prepared to handle at the time.

The graphic provides a handy list of ways to avoid these injuries, though I would qualify the specific item referencing "wearing the right shoes" to suggest wearing shoes with minimal: cushioning, arch support, restrictive upper, and heel padding. If you can reduce the influence of any or all of those factors, I believe your shoes will allow your feet to actually do what they were engineered for in the first place.]]></description>
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