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A Glimpse Into Our Ancient Past

March 28, 2014

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A marvelous and fully modern glimpse into our pre-agricultural past, and the many enduring lessons that this long-evolved pattern of human life holds for understanding our modern health and well-being needs.

This important documentary provides an overview of efforts to 1) catalogue the lifestyle and 2) trace the historical origins, via genetics and linguistics, of the black-skinned, hunter-gatherer Andaman islanders still living on remote islands in the Bay of Bengal (though now just barely).

First Out of Africa – The Totally Isolated Tribe of the Andaman Islands

For people using or exploring the HumanaNatura natural health system, the video provides tangible examples of many of the descriptions and ideas about earlier life contained in the Our Past section of HumanaNatura’s Personal Health Program.

Included in the video are modern-day examples of our original hunter-gatherer or Paleolithic diet, ourl lifestyle and social structure in nature, our intra-band behaviors and norms, and our varying inter-band relations (which were generally not as gregarious as within our bands).

Also included are ideas about our historical Homo sapiens ancestors’ departure from Africa within the last 100,000 years, and discussion of relatively new evidence suggesting our at least episodic interbreeding with pre-existing Homo erectus people living in central and southern Asia (who left Africa beginning more than 1 million years ago).

Importantly, the video also probes the effects of interaction between Paleolithic humans and more technologically and socially advanced people, highlighting a process that has occurred countless times since the Agricultural Revolution – as newer and materially more powerful modes of living encroach upon, displace, and upend earlier human life.

Overall, the video is enormously interesting on its own, but will be of particular interest to anyone studying or seeking palpable examples of earlier natural human life and considering the lessons of earlier life for modern-day life and health. We recommend the video highly!

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Progressive Life At The Equinox

March 20, 2014

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Greetings from HumanaNatura at the equinox! In the natural year, we are now halfway between the extremes of light and darkness of the winter and summer solstices. Everywhere on earth, there is equal day and night, and a heightened balance or natural centering that touches many aspects of life.

A Moment in the Everchanging Light & Feeling of the Natural Year

In the HumanaNatura natural health system, we encourage practitioners to use the twice-yearly opportunity of natural balance and moderation that is each equinox for the crucial practice of reviewing and updating our Natural Life Plan – making changes as needed, and renewing and revitalizing our commitment to progressive natural life and health for the months ahead.

If you have not yet created a Natural Life Plan to guide your use and expression of the third HumanaNatura technique, Natural Living, our links will take you to our planning worksheets and seven-step planning process. Together, these resources will help you begin more intentionally health-centered and naturally progressive life in the days and weeks ahead.

Our newest member newsletter was released today as well, which is published eight times yearly in harmony with the natural year, providing updates on HumanaNatura’s resources, programs, and worldwide health campaigns. To receive future HumanaNatura newsletters or learn more about our global practitioner-advocate network, go to Join HumanaNatura.

However you mark this equinox, we wish you natural balance and new health!

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NaturaLife: 2013 Year In Review

March 2, 2014

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Our site host, WordPress, has prepared a 2013 traffic report on NaturaLife, which we have shared below. Apparently, HumanaNatura is now selling out to packed houses, at least virtually. We are of course pleased to see this growing interest in our revolutionary, renaturalized approach to modern life and health – and want to use this opportunity to thank you for your interest in and support of our efforts. As we look ahead to 2014, feel free to check out our 2013 stats and explore our free online natural health programs!

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 23,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Making Cross-Quarter Progress

February 3, 2014

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Greetings from HumanaNatura at the cross-quarter! In the natural year, we are now halfway between the extremes of light and darkness of the past solstice and the more naturally balanced time of the coming equinox .

Right now is a great time to make extra progress on your Natural Life Plan, so that you have adequate completed actions and learning for the equinox, in another six weeks or eighth of a year, when HumanaNatura encourages plan review and renewal.

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New Year, New Day Salad Meal

January 1, 2014

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With a new year, perhaps it’s time for a new day – and a new committment to your health and quality of life. It’s an easy step and you can start at your next meal. All it really takes is a little learning about Natural Eating the HumanaNatura way, a willingness to explore the many benefits of HumanaNatura’s OurPlate eating guidelines, and your appetite.

This example HumanaNatura salad meal took minutes to prepare and is as satisfying as it is healthy. It begins with a simple base of lettuce, adds a handful each of pre-packaged shredded cabbage and carrots, a few grape tomatoes, a small diced apple, and a bit of protein via pre-cooked shrimp (though almost any lean protein will do). It’s all topped with a light drizzle of vinaigrette dressing, providing lots of flavor in every bite, and is a great way to start the new year or any day in it.

You can learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s easy-to-use Natural Eating model. Experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Then perfect your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy salad meals that follow the OurPlate guidelines via the Meals tab above, our popular article Perfect Salad Meals, or the Natural Eating section of HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new and healthier modern life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s complete and naturally open-ended system for progressive health and fitness. Check out an overview of our health programs at The Four HumanaNatura Techniques.

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Progressive Life At The Solstice

December 21, 2013

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Greetings from HumanaNatura at the solstice! In the natural year, we are now at the extreme points in the ever-changing light of our earth. Today is the shortest day and winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, and the summer solstice and longest day of the year in the south.

In the HumanaNatura tradition, we encourage spending time at this and every solstice to mark these natural milestones in the year with family, friends, and community. With the special light and feeling of each solstice, it’s a natural time to mark the ebb and flow of the year, celebrate progress in our lives and Natural Life Plans, and encourage new health and progressivity in others.

If you have not yet created a Natural Life Plan to guide your use and expression of the third HumanaNatura technique, Natural Living, our links will take you to HumanaNatura’s planning worksheets and seven-step planning process. Together, these resources will help you to begin using this crucial HumanaNatura technique to achieve more intentionally health-centered and naturally progressive life before the next solstice arrives.

Our newest member newsletter was released today as well, which is published eight times yearly in harmony with the natural year, providing updates on HumanaNatura’s resources, programs, and worldwide natural health campaigns. To receive future HumanaNatura newsletters or learn more about our global practitioner-advocate network, go to Join HumanaNatura.

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Finding & Creating Health Activists

November 18, 2013

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By Mark Lundegren

Would you like to make your community a better place in which to live and more aligned with HumanaNatura’s ideal of progressive natural health?

If so, let me say that this is an important goal and worthy ambition. But I must also add that you will need help in this work. Progressive health and vitality in a community is a long-term and ranging endeavor, one requiring action on the part of all or many people within any community. It is a task you can begin but cannot achieve on your own.

In many ways, though, starting a community’s movement toward greater health is the hardest part. With time and just a bit of visibility and success, community interest and involvement naturally increases. We often steadily and unexpectedly find the resources we need to both address pressing health issues and then to begin an ongoing and self-reinforcing process of community health promotion.

But getting started, and finding early adopters and supporters, can be daunting at first. Fortunately, lessons from community activism outside the community health field, and from international development efforts in particular, provide a useful model you can use right away to jump-start your community health promotion process.

I came across a simple community mobilization model at a recent seminar, courtesy of Rafter Ferguson of Liberation Ecology, and think it applies well to communities of all shapes and sizes – especially ones in the early stages of utilizing HumanaNatura’s Community Health Program.

Finding Likely Supporters

As summarized in the graphic below, this model for finding likely community supporters asks us to consider three factors: 1) those people who are most local, 2) those who are most impacted or affected (in this case, by health related issues), and 3) people who are most organized already.

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Making Cross-Quarter Progress

November 7, 2013

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Greetings from HumanaNatura at the cross-quarter! In the natural year, we are now halfway between the more naturally balanced time of the past equinox and the extremes of light and darkness of the coming solstice. As the name implies, cross-quarters occur four times yearly, midway between the two solstices and two equinoxes.

In the HumanaNatura natural health system, we encourage practitioners to use the balance of equinoxes for reflection and planning – including the crucial HumanaNatura practice of reviewing and updating our Natural Life Plan – and the solstices for natural celebration of our lives, relationships, and accomplishments. This framework means that the four-cross quarters are natural times for added focus and intentional progress on our plans, visions, and goals.

However you mark this cross-quarter, we wish you new natural health and progressive life!

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Curing Carbohydrate Creep

October 25, 2013

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By Mark Lundegren

Whether you are new to HumanaNatura’s OurPlate natural eating model or not, a crucial practice to ensure natural and optimal modern nutrition is guarding against what I will call carbo creep.

Carbo creep is easily defined and understood. And with attentiveness, it can be readily observed and steadily prevented, or cured, in our lives. As the name implies, carbo creep is the unwanted, often slow, and sometimes unconscious re-introduction of unnatural carbohydrate-dense foods (all other than fresh fruits) into our daily diet.

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As you can see in my graphic, such carbohydrate-rich foods are not part of the HumanaNatura’s science-based OurPlate approach, just as they were not a principal part of our diet during most of our natural history and development, when we were primarily a hunting and gathering species.

You can learn more about why these foods are not part of OurPlate, and their generally harmful effects on our native physiology, via the Natural Eating section of HumanaNatura’s Personal Health Program.

Natural Eating In – A Nutshell

To quickly recap this fairly large body of information, let me make three points. The first is that our long-evolved human diet is based on raw vegetables, lean animal meats and tree nuts, and fresh fruits and berries. While this idea was once controversial, likely you appreciate that it is now increasingly settled science.

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13 Reasons To Move That Body!

October 11, 2013

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By Michael Volkin (aka The Volkinator)

I’ll admit it. I’m hooked on bodyweight exercises.

I’ve been working out for two decades, rotating through dozens of different workout approaches, but one aspect of my workouts has always been consistent – my use of bodyweight exercises.

By the term bodyweight exercises, I mean fitness workouts that don’t require free weights, and where our own weight provides resistance during the exercise. This might make you think of calisthenics and maybe HumanaNatura’s comprehensive calisthenics program. These are great examples of bodyweight exercise.

Bodyweight workouts are extra-efficient, since they emphasize whole body movement and task multiple muscle groups at the same time (as opposed to the muscle group isolation that is typical in weightlifting). In addition to providing resistance or strength training, bodyweight workouts can also provide cardio conditioning, and improve agility and flexibility too.

I never really thought about why bodyweight exercises had remained so important to me until I started developing my new fitness product, Strength Stack 52, a fitness program designed to be fun, flexible, and effective. The project made be better appreciate the many important aspects and benefits of bodyweight exercises.

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