A. J. Jacobs

Journalist

1968-03-20

A. J. Jacobs is an American journalist and author known for immersion-journalism books such as The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically.

Quotes by A. J. Jacobs

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