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10 quotes by A. J. Jacobs

Arnold Stephen "A. J." Jacobs, Jr. (born March 20, 1968) is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He is the editor at large for Esquire and has worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly.
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The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.... →

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

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

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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In... →

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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very... →

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

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It's sort of my job to feel good.

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

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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like... →

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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful... →

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