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  • Worst ted video ever. THis guy obviously does little research on any othe methods he used. And hes fat. Who would take health advice from this scumbag.

  • @000WOLFBANE000 1. this guy is thinner than 90% of americans

    2. He's done more research than you ever have in your life(learning from someone else is not research)

    3. You are a cunt because you've made presumption about this guy because of his: dress sense, accent/speech and looks.

    I found it to be better than average speaker even if he is slightly crazy, sure he's no hans rosling but thats doesn't make him shit, and you certainly have no right to judge you'd be a quivering wreck on stage fag.

  • He is a surprisingly poor speaker.

  • who is this guy?

  • thumbs if u think he speaks like adam sandler.

  • ted kazynski was a genius who turned unabomber. respect always

  • Did he just suggest to go drive drunk?

  • dumbass

  • he dun make sense. he was so healthy that he was unhealthy but then says a social network is vital to being healthy, therefore he was not healthy if he neglected his friends.

  • @violet101

    "he dun make sense"

    What? Is that even English?

  • Hey, I’ve pre-ordered A.J.’s new book after reading his “The Guinea Pig Diaries”. That book was laugh-out-loud funny and packed with insights from his immersion journalism. It’s sort of like: what if you or I lived according to a completely different belief system than what’s baked into our DNA and prior life experiences, and how would that impact us and the people in our lives. The new book’s “Drop Dead Healthy” title alone is enough to tell me it’s going to be a wild, hilarious ride!

  • why does the intro/outro have to be so obnoxiously loud??

  • @ASNDKAJGDSJAKJ TED is American ;)

  • @mrmishonka Nope, TED is not exclusive to America. The main TED conference is held here in the U.S. but there are a huge number of independently organized TED conferences all over the world (They're usually titled "TEDx(whatever city it's in).

  • @ASNDKAJGDSJAKJ because good ideas are suposed to be loud and shocking

  • @ASNDKAJGDSJAKJ Yeah, all that noise pollution is terrible and ironic in a talk that talks about it :)

  • @ASNDKAJGDSJAKJ So, it's called a 'stab'. Which is a device that acts like a door

    ( a noisy door ) through which you pass to discover new things...

    It is an i.d. ( a brand ). TED brings you nice things for free. Let them brand it how

    they want to. You visionless, arrogant pigs.

  • I think I saw this a couple of years ago on TED aren't you?

  • i turned down the sound when he talked about noise

  • What's funny is the Walking Helmet idea actually does make sense. Also wearing one while driving makes sense. I've never once hit my head in over 20 years of skateboarding and cycling, but have many times at least bumped it hard while walking around or in my car. I've also seen pedestrians faint, trip, etc and hit their heads so hard they could have suffered brain damage or died... It'll never happen because of image and comfort reasons though :P

  • This is not TED material. Please fix this TED :(

  • I only came here to learn about somebody's experiences not to read about the differences between Islam and Christianity.

  • 3:20 no laugh lol

  • how do you dislike x100? Disliking once is not enough.

  • @leichigo88 mind explaining why you disliked so strongly?

  • I'm from Denmark, and I have never heard of this helmet campaign.

  • @TheKasch obviously it not very popular nor practical

  • If I do something stupid for a week I can sell my book on TED? great!

  • HOW BORING!

  • interesting that someone had the privilledge of time to do such thing to improve himself. A big thing though in improving yourself is thinking... critical thinking. I can understand that in a way you hipsterized some researchers and their work by mechanically obeying to then(wear helmet always etc)...but...

  • Healthy = Balance. Going extreme on either end is just unhealthy excessive fad about being healthy.

  • healthy living = rubbing mercury on your skin no thanks

    liquid vitamins and minerals cholsteral and protein then u win

    dont drink the milk

    dont eat the microwave plastics

  • did i miss something? how did healthy living almost kill him? i need my 8:43 back... NOW!

  • whoop dee fucking doo

  • 666 dislakes? :D

  • What the fuck is with the volume of the intro graphics?

  • This is just a book promo, TED Fail :(

  • If you want to become smarter, reading the Encyclopedia is exactly the wrong place to start.

  • @sananima So true.... yet so few will ever understand this :)

  • Don't like it. IMHO, this was not worth watching.

  • Lol he's funny

  • ultimately he's plugging a book ... bring back Sarah Silverman

  • I don't know why people are flooding this with their unconstructive criticism. This was a good talk.

  • @FFSray I agree with you, and usually the ones that complain the most are "trolls" that "expect" to get everything free.

  • I'm glad the speaker tackled the really radical and unknown issues because we know next to nothing about nutrition and exercise. Come on TED talks! What next, "How I survived a year on toenails"? We've got abusive and dysfunctional families, corrupt governments, schools, agencies and religions, the promotion and celebration of war and violence, economic disaster, the younger generation silenced with drugs, utter confusion between fact and myth, and you give us this safe, wet, trivial shite.

  • I don't think this qualifies for a TED talk. Not interesting, sometimes even irrelevant.

  • How trends nearly killed you

  • it's just kind of gimmicky not really that interesting.

  • Um. Ok.

  • Irrelevant

    

  • Hm, while he didn't really deliver on the punchline, I think he did a decent job and people are overreacting.

  • @psykedude It's probably because he's bound to be compared to the comparatively stellar performances in most other TED vids.

  • he looked like sylar

  • very little information here. did not deliver on the headline

  • This guy has some great material. Obviously, he's not a scientist, but he has some incredible experience. I'm glad he was on TED; all that's missing is someone to interpret and analyze his story. There are plenty of people out there that could do it, something useful could actually emerge from this guy's stream-of-conscious (he's obviously been a little too brainwashed by "experts").

  • If your conclusion is that you were so healthy you were unhealthy, then you've failed somewhere along the line. Certainly, you've failed to define healthy correctly.

  • @CrannBethadh and you obviously did not understand the point

  • @zipper978 Well I think I did get the point, and I wasn't trying to be too critical of the speaker, because I think he presents an important topic well. I think the point though is, like I said, society often defines healthy incorrectly. Health must be holistic (a term that also gets misused) - if something you're doing is severely detracting from the quality of your life, then it's highly suspect that it can be called healthy.

  • Sorry but I like it it was entertaining to me. Don't take life to the extreme and look for a balance that all. Just because someone says something don't think we all believe it and yes people do things that you or I would not do. I like the Title of the book. Me I like science but can't spell at alllll. HE'S on stage and wrote a Book. That's pretty Cool to me.

  • i love his talks, the jesus one is the best

  • What a waste of time. Missed the point, learned nothing.

  • Excellent video!

  • Just be quiet if you're complaining. Not all TED talks have to be idealistic, and all-enlightening, discourses about life changing scenarios; this guy is just telling us about his experience.

  • yep, noise is quite good to try to avoid.

  • I guess TED failed at the "quiet life" part with that ending noise. I was listening trough headphones and that was very PAINFUL! That triggered a fight or flight response alright!

    I should bill TED for a couple of hours of my life based on what this guy said.

  • @racedaemon Bill TED for a couple of hours of your life?

    TED, the people who upload their talks for free?

    The same talks that cost $4000 to attend to?

    Their is a god damned volume slider that some programmer spent hours programming just so you will ignore it.

    He should bill you for the time he spent programming, and TED should bill us all per the time we spend watching their amazing talks.

    I've said.

  • @cmd2tuts It's sad to see you take yourself so seriously not to see the irony in my comment.

    As someone who thinks of organizing a TEDx, I'm as fanboy as it can get without being ridiculous. But to talk about programmers who make volume sliders it's... well ridiculous.

    I was pointing out the huge difference in volume at the end, which being so sudden it can't be anticipated, in this particular case it was realy bad. My ears were ringing while i wrote the comment.

    I've said. :)

  • Stand up comedy

  • Yeah this wasn't so good at all.

  • Just because some "expert" advises something doesn't mean it should be done...

  • This video seemed to be little more than a plug for his book. Dammit! Now I want to read some of it. :(

  • What is TED? Must be a snarky comedian wannabe convention?

  • This is so disappointing to find on TED.

  • This is really fucking crappy. Why does he think he's so damn funny?

  • Bambi

  • I agree with some of the comments here. It was funny, but the tittle it's just wrong all over the place.

  • what a WASTE of my time

  • Nancy boy

  • What's with the hate? This is great!

  • does anyone else think the ted intro and outro has shorten their lives? cause hearing it with head phones is quite painful...

  • It wasn't bad. Only 8min, and it was humorous.

  • As a dane, I'd like to clarify that no one ever, ever, ever wears "walking helmets" here. We 're small, but we're not that pussified.

  • Why do they host an obsessive compulsive hypochondriac?.

    What's the point of his history, mental obsesive beheaviours are unhelathy.... that's news.

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  • This video would've had much better ratings had the video been titled differently something more like "On improving overall health"

  • Yes, this was absolutely nothing. Pointless...

  • What a bullshit useless speech!

  • Ted should be better than this...

  • I want 1080p >:(

  • this is more a book promotion.... than a conference.... dislike

  • Great video. I kinda want to try some of those projects.

  • I live in Denmark and neither me or anyone I know have ever heard of a walking-helmet

  • It's amazing how many Youtubers missed the point

  • and what's the point !!! didn't get any value from this :( wasted 8:43 minutes

  • The title is totally misleading

  • what a douchebag, and what a silly idea to pursue - the stuff he did, I have no idea how I got through the whole talk, massive thumbdown

  • @RoyalColaNews On the contrary, religion plays a great role in a persons health. A religious person is extremely unhealthy. It makes them irrational and separates them from people of other beliefs.

  • @FreeFromWar not really, I'm religious, my best friend is from a different religion and I believe in evolution.

  • With this insight, TED should lower the volume of their intro.

  • Crunchy? Does that include Nestle's crunchy bar?

  • @RoyalColaNews It has proven to be a very strong placebo and amazingly, contributes to more consistent good health for strong believers.

  • @theblastedfrench being stupid is a sign of good health? I am confused

  • @Kaeralho no, the effect of having such strong belief in something has a positive effect on the general well being of the individual

  • @theblastedfrench Not true in general.

  • WTF have I just watched?

  • There's a difference between living healthily and living in an unnecessarily sterilised bubble for the sake of a few anecdotes.

  • Healthy living is all about balance, not about putting sunscreen every 4 hours. Sounds like dermatologists are in bed with sunscreen companies, that's all.

  • People who use pubmed rather than Google Scholar live shorter lives.

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  • what a waste of my time

  • @RoyalColaNews Everything.

  • I feel deep jealousy for AJ Jacobs and his psuedo-deserved career of empty bits.

  • @RoyalColaNews

    It significantly improves your social connections, making healthy living more likely, despite its grave falsity.

  • Im danish. And i have NEVER seen that walking helmet campaign.. Im ashamed of that picture :(

  • @RoyalColaNews everything lol

  • 0:15

    i hate when people don't post this! -_-

  • @axyelp First world problems.

  • did he wanna say mental health when he talk about friends/social?

  • @RoyalColaNews Being a religious person enhances your lifespan, according to some studies. Must have to do with some psychological effect, I guess (Don't know for sure, I'm not very religious).

  • @RoyalColaNews Check the news. People blowing themselves up, raping people, maiming, etc, etc..... it's all in the name of religion. In fact, consider how many people have died by the name of religion since the record of history. Millions.

    Avoid religion, live a healthy life :)

  • @asdfgoogle So you're saying That non-religious people don't commit atrocities? (and assuming that it is true,) Consider how many people have gone to hell without religion since the record of history.

    Your points as well as mine are irrelevant to good health, so maybe we shouldn't jump to conclusions.

  • @klingon13524

    "how many people have gone to hell without religion since the record of history".

    None. People without religion die - period. They don't go to a place you believe to exist.

  • @klingon13524 What I'm saying is that religion has, and largely still is the reason people are killed. They die in the name of religion. Without religion, those people wouldn't die. Needless deaths.

    But then at the same time, the whole world would be different, so no point going there. Main point, religious people largely kill because their religion says to kill. Non-believers have no such "law".

  • @asdfgoogle No, religion does not say to kill. Nowhere in the Bible does it say to kill who is not Christian, but yet the Crusades happened. It's people, not religion.

  • @theOman333 If it's the actions of people, not religion, then religion should be left in private as to not get sucked into the hatred of mankind.

    Clearly you support this, because those people did what they did in the name of their religion. If you are in support of the same religion, then you are in league with them. If you make religion a private matter, then it's impossible to connect you with them and the rest of the corrupted politicians.... I mean religious leaders... oops

  • @asdfgoogle your argument shows a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature. Religion did not cause Hitler Mao or Stalin to kill their own people when they opposed them, more than religion men and women kill for power and money, prestige and status. Some of the least violent people on the face of this planet are religious, look at the Jains in India and the Buddhists of Tibet. Religion is what we make of it, and it merely reflects ourselves. Like us it is multifaceted and complex.

  • @LeGioNoFZioN I never said that religion was behind Hitler and Stalin. I specifically didn't say that because it isn't true.

    Regardless, you missed my point. My point is that many religions, now or in the past, supported the targeted slaughter of people. An excuse to commit heinous crimes based on outlandish morals and disregard for logic and trial.

    Religion isn't always bad, of course. In this age though, religion isn't needed due to the implementation of basic morals in society

  • @asdfgoogle No. Religion is always bad.

  • @DrJackJeckyl - No. Religion isn't always bad. To make such a broad statement is beyond narrow minded. Paradox. If religion gives someone comfort and gives them a sense of morality and ethics, teaches them to treat others with kindness and compassion - how is that always bad?

    My mother is very religious and you can't find a sweeter more generous, more accepting person. Not everyone who is religious is a zealot or fanatic.

  • @RocktheStageNYC Let me guess, your dear old Moms is a member of the very same organisation that tied women to wood piles and set them ablaze... simply for having a cat? The same organisation that has bought indigenous populations around the world to the brink of extinction, spreading the good word? The same organisation who is called out on countless charges of child abuse and molestation? The same organisation that has kept this world in a perpetual state of war and hatred since its inception?

  • @DrJackJeckyl - who said my mother was Catholic? She could be Jewish, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Mormon, Hindi, Buddhist - I said religious. Again your narrow mindedness forces you to make broad statements without merit. Since you're railing against catholics, why don't you list all the good things the Catholic Church has done over the years for the poor, the destitute, the homeless.

    When Catholics starts chopping off heads / bombing kids on their way to school I'll worry about them.

  • @RocktheStageNYC

    Catholics did do those things. The church brutally tortured hudereds of thousands of people. during the inquisition, the crusades & witch hunts.

    Today they spread the lie in aids ridden Africa that condoms are a sin against god & actually spread the disease. Millions die as a direct result.

    In the Sudan priests have actually taken part in the religious genocides having been seen slaughtering people with machetes.

  • @RedlineMMA - thats where you have to go? To the middle ages?

    Wherever you have humans involved there will always be corruption, greed, wickedness etc. Its not the religion but the person.

    A gun does no harm unless its fired by a human. The gun was designed as an instrument of death but its not lethal unless a human uses it that way.

    Same goes for religion. The vast majority of religious people are well adjusted and peaceful but the zealots and corrupt get all the attention.

  • @RedlineMMA your claim of the bible and/or the koran are immoral need proof. you having some pre-set ideas need full explanation before having such claims.. also, you cannot base a claim on one book (whether the bible or the koran) on another book.. the claims of science being contradictory of claims of the koran are actually inaccurate. look up scientific miracles of the koran and you can look for such claims. it is actually the opposite.

    i can give you some links if i find good ones.

  • @slh91

    Fail.....The immorality & barbaric teachings of the koran & bible are all there in black & white for all to see.

    claiming the koran is scientific is DELUSIONAL. Example......the Koran says that saltwater & freshwater do NOT mix. Its "scientific" explanation about how the world & life formed is also myth..... not science.

  • @slh91 Lying to people is immoral, that's one more reason religions are immoral.

  • @RedlineMMA The only trouble with this viewpoint is that it is only reasoned in part. The truth is that all human beings, religious, non-religious, strictly scientific, or whatever the foundation of approach might be....human beings all commit terrible acts, thinking we are correct in our convictions and actions. We are all flawed, we are all works in progress. We are also very judgmental and condemning of one another.

  • @shekitten7456

    I'm not arguing the world will suddenly become a utopia if religions were abandoned. It would however eliminate one of the main driving factors in wars, violence & bigotry in this world.

    Dogmatic irrational beliefs whether religious, political or nationalistic should be spoken out against.

    Your position is no different then saying, why should be work to eliminate racism, When it won't fully eliminate xenophobia, people will still find ways to segregate humanity.

  • @RedlineMMA What I find interesting is that the Bible admits this, Matthew 24:6

    New International Version (NIV)

    "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come."

    They recognize that they are the cause of such contention that wars will be fought about it, yet they embrace it because they are sure that their beliefs are right, and I respect that commitment. Especially Christians who are non-violent.

  • @lso5027 Why, thanks, Nostradamus.

  • @lunadogwoof Heck no, Nostradamus had way better specifically vague "prophesies". I am just saying that Christians know they are causing problems with believing what they do.

  • @RocktheStageNYC

    The pope actually protected know child rapists by moving them to areas where they wouldn't be bothered by law enforcement & continued to rape innocent children. His own emails shows he was much more concerned with the image of the church then the child victims.

    The catholic church is one of the most evil institutions to ever exist. No amount of charitable work would possible make up for this.

  • @RedlineMMA - you are making my point. The Church itself is not evil, but the people inside it. Wherever you have humans involved you will have human frailities like ego, deceit, lies, murder, greed and a lust for power. No matter how you set up an institution to do good, somewhere along the line a human will stain it with human frailties.

  • @RocktheStageNYC

    The Koran teaches that martyrdom is the greatest glory & highly rewarded in paradise. It commands over & over to hate & despise the infidels & to wage jihad against them. This is why terrorism is such a real threat & why suicide bombers are striking on a daily basis.

  • @RocktheStageNYC

    When a cartoon of Muhammad was published in Denmark & the Muslim world found out they killed rioted killing hundreds & set fire to half a dozen embassies around the world. Why such a harsh reaction???

    Because one of the ten commandments is not to make a graven image & the penalty for this in the Koran is death!!

  • @RedlineMMA People make images and fun of Jesus, Buddha, and God himself all the time in comics, books, and television. Why are only Muslims allowed to react in such an immature way? Why are Muslims not allowed to be offended?

  • @AcruxSolus

    Its a matter of how adherent they are to their relgiouse texts(excluding Buddhism). The Muslim world is still in the dark ages 500 yrs ago Christians behaved no better (the inquisition was truly vile).

    You can still find fundamentalist Christians & Jews that think adulatory & homosexuality should still be punishable by death..ETC The difference is there are hundreds of millions of Muslims that are just as dogmatic.

    Their enlightenment can't come fast enough.

  • @AcruxSolus A so-called christian friend won't talk to me anymore because I sent him a cartoon of the Terminator saving Jesus from the cross while saying "So we won't have to listen to your bullshit in the future". I thought only muslims got butt hurt over cartoons, but every religion is a joke, and should be treated accordingly.

  • @MrHomeChef The fundamental difference between Muslims and Christians is the scale at which they take offense; Muslims take offense on a religious, massive scale, whereas Christians take offense only in isolated, individual instances.

  • @AcruxSolus Tell that to all the millions christians have slaughtered over the last 2000 years. They're as fucked up as muslims in every fucking way.

  • @MrHomeChef Hardly. Just because the Germans killed millions of people in the past does not mean that the Germans are bad people now. The same applies to Christians, who for quite some time now, have not committed (as a whole) major atrocities, as they once did. Islam, though, is quite a different story and deserves extra scrutiny.

  • @AcruxSolus

    I do agree Islam is more of a direct threat today than Christianity. However modern Christianity is still responsible for many of the worlds ills. Hundreds of millions have been killed in genocides in Africa in the last decade & Christianity & Islam are directly responsible for this.

    stem cell research was banned in the USA because of Christian influence & the fact of evolution is hardly taught in American schools for the same reason. Don't forget global warming denial etc etc

  • @RedlineMMA

    The threat posed by christianity is much more insidious than that of islam. Aside from the blatantly egregious manifestations, such the genocides and religiously motivated murders, you have a system which actively promotes intolerance, willful ignorance, rejections of science, social reforms, and communication.