After sharpening his mind in The Know-It-All" & 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 wasnt 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 & vitality. He is armed with a team of medical advisers & 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 & shoeless jogging to name only a few; sampled every miracle diet going beginning with the coffee booze & chocolate plan through the Rastafarian diet to raw foodism; as well as sharpening his eyes & mind testing every known method & 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 mans painful journey from slob to superman & a fascinating & eye-opening examination of what it really means to be healthy. Revealing the ugly truth about the assumptions & obsessions we have about our bodies this might just be the healthiest book youll ever read."