REVIEW: Healthy to Death by A.J. Jacobs

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

This is a book about health, or rather about all the hysteria that has risen around this! No one can prove that there is cancer from broiler chickens, but everyone is talking about it. No one has proven that abs cubes are good for you, but everybody burns themselves in the gym to tone those incredibly lazy muscles. No one has proven that organic products are ten times better than non-organic ones, although they often cost so much more, they spend money on it and find the strength to hack to death on blogs and forums on this topic.

If you are interested in health, but you are not hysterical, then read "Healthy to Death" and here's why.

The author of the book, A. J. Jacobs, is a senior editor for Esquire magazine. He decided to spend one year to become the healthiest person in the world. Every month he pays close attention to one of his body parts or an organ and, with the help of cool experts, gets opposite opinions on how to do so in order to be healthy. This is how the content is creatively designed, for the first time in my life I read it:)

Allow me to spoil a little to pique your interest in this extremely entertaining book. At various points in the book, the author has his aunt. She is from the category of urban madmen - a raw foodist, ignores transport, touch, finds fault with the occurrence of every object in everyday life, does not use household chemicals and all that. At the end of the book, she dies at a very strange age from cancer. This darkens the end of the book very much. However, the author also has a 92-year-old grandfather who died in this year of the experiment, having lived an ordinary life without spoilage. And there is an author who tries everything and presents something like a golden mean.

After reading this book in a little over three hours, I understood how to live for me and drew attention to what I had never paid attention to and “scored” on what was in vain my head was stuffed with.

And the book "Healthy to Death" is the best selection of madness that modern educated and well-earning people have come up with. Either from boredom, or from too big a mind:)