Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780743598767 (0743598768)
Publish date: April 10th 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Minutes: 9
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Funny,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Science,
Health,
Sports,
Fitness
Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia and ashamed of a middle-aged body best described as “a python that swallowed a goat,” A.J. Jacobs felt compelled to change his ways and get healthy. To accomplish this epic task, he consulted an army of experts and subjected himself to dozens of d...
Oh how I wish I had the desire and motivation to do something like this - learn all about healthiness and then do something with that knowledge. But, I don't so I read about someone else doing it, instead.As usual, Mr. Jacobs is delightful and sometimes irritating in his quest to learn all about a t...
This was fun, light, humorous and engaging. Now I want a treadmill desk, though. I liked the authorial voice enough that I will likely pick up his other books.
Thanks to Simon and Schuster for sending a copy of this ARC to the Barnes and Noble where I work part time. I was so thrilled to see this, as I loved The Guinea Pig Diaries by this same author. Although, when I went to Goodreads.com to see what I had rated that book, I found I'd never marked it re...
I like to rate books the way I rate food; books and food can be (1) delicious and (2) nutritious. Some books, like chick lit and mysteries, are mostly just delicious. Some books, like history books, are mostly just nutritious. A. J. Jacobs’ books are a little of both. Yummy and good-for-you. Especia...
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