A. J. Jacobs

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. ...

I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying fo ...

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restrictio ...

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every ...

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. ...

My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equi ...

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and li ...

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighbo ...

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year ...