Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

With A.J. Jacobs, the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, and The Guinea Pig Diaries.

The senior Esquire editor and a writer known for experimental living, decides he will spend a year eating right and getting healthy. He subjected himself to a grueling but entertaining regimen of exercise, diets and experiments that yielded surprising insights. He assembled a team of expert medical advisers, pledged to disentangle medical myths from reality, and broke down his quest body part by body part. He tests our culture's assumptions and obsessions with what makes good health. Despite his success—a transformation the author proves with data and photographs—good health emerges as a means to a simple end: to be around to see his three young sons grow up.