A. J. Jacobs Quotes

• 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 Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

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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, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you’ll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

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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 little – if you’re on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

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• It’s sort of my job to feel good.

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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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• 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 the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

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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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• 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. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

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

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

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A. J. Jacobs (10)

Birth:	20th March, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Jacobs was born in New York City to Jewish parents Arnold Jacobs Sr., a lawyer, and Ellen Kheel. He has one sister, Beryl Jacobs. Jacobs attended the Dalton School and studied philosophy at Brown University. He is married to Julie Schoenberg and has three sons: Jasper Kheel Jacobs and twins Zane and Lucas Jacobs. He is the editor at large for Esquire and previously worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly. Jacobs is a first cousin of the legal scholar Cass Sunstein.

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