The 4-Hour Body. By Timothy Ferriss

My wife likes to read health books every once in a while, and she was one that actually purchased this for her Kindle.  And since I'm over weight and haven't taken a single biology course in my life (I'm not sure how I went through junior high, high school, college and graduate school without ever having to take one still surprises me.), except maybe health class, I figured this book might finally give me enough technical answers and explanations to things that I might actually do something about my ever increasing waist line.  Unlike the the title may suggest, this isn't a quick fix book.  You still have to do the work, but it does focus on the Minimum Effective Dose.  Meaning putting the least amount in while getting the greatest returns.  For an example Tim uses in the book.  If you went to the beach looking for a tan and were in the sun for an hour and a half, you'd burn.  Your skin would turn red, eventually peel, and you'd be just where you were before you went.  However, if you instead broke that hour and a half into 6 chunks of 15 minutes each, by the end of the week you'd be mistaken for a hot South American.  The key is dosing. Water boils at 212 degree F.  Boiled in boiled.  Higher temperatures will not make it "more boiled".    You don't have to over do it to get the better results.  Exercise also follows the law of diminishing returns.  More is not always better. The book covers a wide verity of topics everything from the Slow-Carb Diet, using supplements, utilizing temperature to aid in weight loss, building extreme muscles, perfect sleep, and much, much (sometimes too much) more.  One of the things I really appreciated about his book was you could read as much into it technically as you like.  You knew the sections that were going to get very technical and just skip it but still get the idea of the concept.  For example you don't have to know how an internal combustion engine works to be able to drive a car.  Tim is also a techie at heart.  Being a programmer by trade, it was pretty cool to read about his body experiments for a tech geek.  All that being side, I am going to attempt to get off my tail and do something.  I'm going to give the slow-carb diet and exercise a month and re-evaluate from there.  That is kind of scary putting in writing, but I can do it.  The thing that  I think will help me the most will be the once a week, anything goes, day for food.  If you are looking to loose some weight, or just want to do a "life-hack" on your body to get the most from it, this could be a fun read for you.