Drop Dead Healthy
One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
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New York Times best-selling author and king of "immersion journalism" A.J. Jacobs tackles his most challenging experiment yet: a yearlong mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind - from his brain to his fingertips to his abs.
Having lifted his spirit 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 doesn't just want to lose a couple of pounds, or finish a triathlon, or lower his cholesterol.
First, he had to tackle a complicated web of diet and exercise advice, most which is nonsensical, unproven, and contradictory. Second, he had to consult a team of medical advisers. And finally, he had to subject himself, over the course of two years, to a grueling regimen of exercises, a range of diets and nutritional plans, and a brutal array of techniques and practices to improve everything from his hearing to his sleep - all the while testing the patience of his wife.
This latest work bursts with hilarity and warmth, all the while testing our culture's assumptions and obsessions with what makes good health and allowing the listener to reflect on his or her own health, body, and eventual mortality.
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At 44, acclaimed cardiologist Dr. John Day was overweight and suffered from insomnia, degenerative joint disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. On six medications and suffering constant aches, he needed to make a change. While lecturing in China, he'd heard about a remote mountainous region known as Longevity Village, a wellness Shangri-La free of disease where living past 100 was not uncommon.
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Life changing
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This Is How I Save My Life
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When Amy B. Scher was struck with undiagnosed late-stage, chronic Lyme disease, the best physicians in America labeled her condition incurable and potentially terminal. Deteriorating rapidly, she went on a search to save her own life - from the top experts in Los Angeles and the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis to a state-of-the-art hospital in Chicago. After exhausting all of her options in the US, she discovered a possible cure - but it was highly experimental, available only in India, and had as much of a probability of killing her as it did of curing her.
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A great comfort
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Stories I'd Tell in Bars
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Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Older, but not wiser, Lancaster goes back to basics in this hilarious essay collection about everything from taking community policing classes to accidentally getting high with her waiter after a fancy dinner. These are the tales she'd tell if she met you in a bar... if she weren't too lazy to put on pants and go to a bar. Offering advice ranging from how to remain happily married to a man who refuses to blow his damn nose already to not creating An Incident at the cheese counter during an attempt at Whole30, she's you, only louder.
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self absorbed
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With candid, witty, and compelling experiences of yoga from renowned memoirists, including Cheryl Strayed (author of the number one New York Times best-seller Wild), Claire Dederer (author of national best-seller Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses), Dinty W. Moore (author of The Accidental Buddhist), Neal Pollack (author of Stretch: The Making of a Yoga Dude) and many others, Going Om shares a range of observations about this popular practice.
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Are you sick of being on a diet? Do you always seem to be struggling to stop gaining weight? Fat Girl Friday is the most unique dieting book ever written – it will change the way you eat for the rest of your life! Craig Beck is one of the fittest, healthiest and most toned people you will ever meet. So why is he known around the world as ‘Fat Guy Friday’? In truth that’s exactly what he used to be.. a big fat guy! Until one day he said enough is enough and broke the cycle of yo-yo dieting that had plagued his life.
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Everything Is Awful
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Best Audio Book I’ve heard ever.
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I haven't tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I'm walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat. Remember when Kate Moss said, 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'? She's wrong: chocolate does. At the age of 32, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day.
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A memoir of a silver spoon, maybe.
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The Self-Care Solution
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Dr. Jennifer Ashton is at the top of her field as an ob-gyn and news correspondent. But even at the top there’s still room to improve, and with The Self-Care Solution, she upends her life one month at a time, using her own experiences to help you improve your health and enhance your life. Inspiring, practical, and informative, The Self-Care Solution teaches you how to recalibrate your life to enjoy a better, healthier year, one month at a time. This audiobook can help you achieve a better life balance and a more active and healthy lifestyle.
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Don’t buy this.
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Impactful!
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Negative reviews are ridiculous.
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The New Health Rules
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Dr. Frank Lipman is at the vanguard of a revolutionary way to deliver medical care (O, The Oprah Magazine). A leading expert in the field of functional medicine, he focuses on the root causes of illness and guides his patients to the deepest, most lasting sources of wellness. In this audiobook, he and co-author Danielle Claro make life-changing health advice available to all. They wade through the often contradictory information that bombards us daily and deliver more than one hundred actionable tips that will improve every aspect of our health - body, mind, and soul.
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Why I Hate Green Beans
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If there is one thing Lincee Ray has learned over the years, it's that the majority of women on the planet struggle with insecurities. Our skinny jeans mock us. Our just-trying-to-help mothers are just driving us crazy. Our social media feeds taunt us with everyone else's picture-perfect lives. It's enough to send you on a gummy-bear bender while binge-watching Friends reruns and not showering for a week. Lincee knows. She's been there. Right there, in fact. Gummy bears and all.
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Perfect in every way!
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The Champagne Diet
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This book is for the woman who wants to feel good about herself and her body, and learn how to start incorporating healthy habits into her life. It's for the woman who doesn't want to trade in her champagne for skinny jeans. It's for the woman who is done with dieting, and ready to start paying attention to her health before that number on the scale. It's for the woman who is ready to stop letting her weight define her, and is ready to understand why it always did. This is not a diet book. This is a lifestyle guide.
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Delish!
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- Erik
- 04-29-12
Funny, perhaps even motivational
What was one of the most memorable moments of Drop Dead Healthy?
The idea of the walking desk is genius, and to know that he walked more than 1,000 miles literally while writing the book is fantastic.
Any additional comments?
This book was far more amusing than anticipated, although I should have expected it would be with how entertaining Jabobs' other books have been. Overall, I learned some things about what it was like to transition to a healthy lifestyle. I won't be instituting all of the changes he made (caveman, laughing room, etc) to my life, but I might actually do some of the things he did.
Very enjoyable, particularly if you're looking for amusing storytelling and not emotional, life-changing literature.
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- Richard W. Hudson
- 06-03-15
Entertaining but also enlightening
A. J. Jacobs spent two years trying out virtually every health fad. Some were offbeat while others made sense. I could almost see him getting healthier as the months clicked by. He also is the narrator and an engaging one at that. Highly recommended.
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- Charmaine Phipps
- 07-17-15
Great, but one tiny flaw
I love this book and Jacobs' narration. However, the beginning of many words is cut off. Is it him or the recorder or my car stereo? Instead of "mystery" it might sound like "istory". This was about 1/10th of the words. Otherwise, fabulous book and narration.
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- Michael
- 05-25-12
Interesting story but not that helpful
If you’ve listened to books by A. J. Jacobs before, how does this one compare?
This is the first introduction to AJ Jacobs. I guess I expected this book to be less narrative. I was expecting more about what was learned and less about what was going on in his life while he researched for the book. It's more a diary than a self help book.
What didn’t you like about A. J. Jacobs’s performance?
Jacobs should have gotten a professional to read the audio book. I'm not sure what it is about his voice that distracts me from the words he is saying, but it is very distracting.
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- Gary
- 06-06-12
Witty but Generic
The book excels when the author is laughing at himself and when he gives the best lines to his wife or family. I did laugh out loud multiple times. He does jump around frequently from fad to fad and even with that there is some good random advice. Best advice of all, he mentions that he listens to NPR on his podcasts and he learned he could speed up the playback. After realizing I could speed up his narration, I immediately did and his reading performance was much better. He's a much better listen at one and half speed.
At least in regards to lowering stress and the laughing club for example, there is some redundancy with Jonathan Haidt's "The Happiness Hypothesis". I noticed when they cover the same topic, I much prefer Jonathan Haidt's book.
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- DFW
- 06-08-12
Funny Book
I thought this book was well written and very witty. It actually had some imformation about different products or diet and exercise methods that I had read about and thought about trying.
This book was very entertaining but not one that stuck to my ribs. I enjoyed it at the time but almost forgot about it until I was looking through my library for something else to read.
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- Leah G.
- 10-30-23
fun interesting
fun, interesting. lots of info, different style from what I have been. listening.
wish more details on sources
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- Fun Lovin Lady
- 04-25-12
I Read, I Learned, I Laughed
Would you listen to Drop Dead Healthy again? Why?
Yes, I would listen to Drop Dead Healthy again. I already have. There is so much information, good information, in this book. I wouldn't feel like I got my moneys worth if I didn't.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Drop Dead Healthy?
The author is scared of "all things germ ". So, when one of his sons drops his ice cream cone on the ground, and then gets down on his knees and begins to lick up his ice cream straight from the floor. It is great to listen to the author 's reaction (he is horrified) . All the while his wife is cheering him on.
The author is also the narrator, so you can hear his dismay and his pride as he tells his story.
What does A. J. Jacobs bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He makes his stories come to life. It is like a 3D movie, compared to a standard movie.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Read my headline.
Any additional comments?
This is the second book that I have read by A.J. Jacobs. It was his first book. I would recommend that book too.
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- White Door Photography
- 05-31-12
Well worth it!
An enjoyable one time listen. Good balance of humor and human interest. Touching ending - you gotta hang in til the end.
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- MeliDe
- 09-25-13
Drop Dead Funny
Would you listen to Drop Dead Healthy again? Why?
I would listen again because I love the humor of A.J. Jacobs and the way he checks out the literal interpretation of whatever he's writing about. Bless his wife.
What other book might you compare Drop Dead Healthy to and why?
I also listened to "The Year of Living Biblically" which is even funnier than this book. Jacobs can get into some real predicaments. And again, God bless his wife.
What about A. J. Jacobs’s performance did you like?
His emotion
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I laughed a lot while listening to this book -- it's great for traffic time.
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