AJ Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me

http://www.ted.com For a full year, AJ Jacobs followed every piece of health advice he could -- from applying sunscreen by the shotglass to wearing a bicycle helmet while shopping. Onstage at TEDMED, he shares the surprising things he learned.

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[nukube]

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

[ASNDKAJGDSJAKJ]

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

[weeabou]

@BenFosterism I think that judging by the fact alone that he used sunscreen he did not do his research right. I mean obviously if he said he researched being healthy and he eventually did the opposite, he did something wrong. If nothing else, he listened to the wrong fags -> bad info -> problems. And @wolfbane, judging by your name you play skyrim and, thus, are obese and a stupid fag. And yeah, that's kinda irony, maybe a bit sarcastic.

[BenFosterism]

@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.

[000WOLFBANE000]

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.

[LunarLightning]

He is a surprisingly poor speaker.



[JogBird]

who is this guy?

[lso5027]

@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.

[lunadogwoof]

@lso5027 Why, thanks, Nostradamus.

[andybpiano]

@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).