02110nam a2200349u 4500 759048519 OCoLC 20190501233024.0 ta 120822s2012 nyua 001 0beng 2011039172 9781416599074 (hardback) 141659907X (hardback) (OCoLC)759048519 pcc RA776.5 .J265 2012 613.2092 B 23 Jacobs, A. J., 1968- Drop dead healthy : one man's humble quest for bodily perfection / A.J. Jacobs. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012. x, 402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. "Having sanctified himself in The Year of Living Biblically and sharpened his mind in The Know-It-All, A. J. Jacobs had one feat left in the self-improvement trinity: to become the healthiest man in the world. He didn't want just to lose weight, or finish a triathlon, or lower his cholesterol. His ambitions were far, far greater : Maximal health from head to toe.The task was massive. He had to tackle a complicated web of diet and exercise advice, much of which was nonsensical, unproven, and contradictory. He had to consult a team of medical advisers. And he had to subject himself to a grueling regimen of exercises, a range of diets, and an array of practices to improve everything from his hearing to his sleep to his sex life all the while testing the patience of his long-suffering wife. He left nothing untested, from the caveman workout to veganism, from the treadmill desk to extreme chewing. Drop Dead Healthy teems with hilarity and warmth and pushes our cultures assumptions about and obsessions with what makes good health, allowing the reader to reflect on his or her own health, body, and eventual mortality"--Provided by publisher. Jacobs, A. J., 1968- Health. Health. Nutrition Biography. Exercise. Health Humor. 2 23727 23727 0 0 ABELJ abelj NF 2017-01-19 0 613.2 JACO 32998 2017-01-19 26.00 2017-01-19 BOOK