The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Ten common primal mistakes you might be making. Most of us go primal to solve problems created by conventional wisdom.

The importance of whole grains and daily cardio, the dangers of dietary fat and animal protein,

the primacy of carbohydrates for energy.

These untruths are promulgated so widely and fails so conclusively that you can't

help but look to the people saying the opposite for direction. That's where we come in. Most of us

go primal to solve problems created by conventional dietary and lifestyle recommendations.

Often these solutions involve doing the opposite of what the authorities are telling us.

For the most part, it works.

Sometimes askewing conventional advice goes too far, though.

Sometimes we make serious blunders in our pursuit of primal perfection.

Number one. Bacon gorgeing.

Bacon is the forbidden food. It beguiles vegans and tempts the die-hard, low-fat, statin munchers.

So when you learn that bacon won't kill you, your bacon intake tends to climb.

After all, it's delicious.

No one disputes that.

But that doesn't mean you should eat bacon for

breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That doesn't mean bacon should be your primary protein source. You don't

need to gorge on it. These days, I treat bacon more like a condiment. Chop it up and sprinkle it

on salads, saute it with Brussels sprouts, toss it in with roasted sweet

potatoes and apples. And yes, I love a good slab of it with some eggs, but not all the time.

Don't be like the college freshman getting drunk at 10 a.m. in his dorm because his parents

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