Drop Dead Healthy: One Man"s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)
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After sharpening his mind in "The Know-It-All" and achieving spiritual enlightenment in "The Year of Living Biblically", A.J. Jacobs had only one thing left to tackle in the self-improvement trinity: the body. But his mission wasn"t just to lose a couple of pounds, but to turn his current self - "a mushy, easily winded, moderately sickly blob" - into a paragon of health and vitality. He is armed with a team of medical advisers and a 53-page task list, Jacobs set to work. He subjected his body to a brutal regime of exercise programmes - extreme chewing, anti-gravity yoga and shoeless jogging to name only a few; sampled every miracle diet going, beginning with the "coffee, booze and chocolate" plan through the "Rastafarian diet" to raw foodism; as well as sharpening his eyes and mind, testing every known method, and the patience of his long-suffering wife, in his quest to become as healthy as humanly possible. "Drop Dead Healthy" is a hilarious account of one man"s painful journey from...