The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Ten ways to encourage primal body positivity.

Standing in the checkout line of your average grocery store is a telling cultural experience.

For the few minutes it takes for the checker to ring the person in front of you,

there you idle with your cart, surrounded by the ironic juxtaposition of junk food aisle caps

and fashion slash fitness magazines.

The images of impossibly smooth or ripped celebrities and models,

strategically lit and otherwise doctored, stare you down on your way to checkout.

And people buy these magazines with gusto, even though they're basically all the same,

featuring the same rehashed articles or selling the same impossible body expectations.

Is it any wonder so few people can meet their bodies with acceptance?

But this got me thinking, what would a primal magazine cover and its models look like?

I have a few thousand ideas for both.

I'd like to think it would have a lot to say toward optimizing physical function

and embracing individual variance over imposed media standards.

But I've always been that contrary type.

So let's go down that road a bit and look at some down-to-earth

practical takeaways for encouraging primal body positivity. It's impossible to take apart the topic

without looking at the obvious social static we're bombarded by, and not just on those magazine

covers. For women, of course, the common, although thankfully changing, standards has traditionally

been thinness. The waif look with its slight waist, skinny-legged jeans, and bone-contored

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