Guy Reads: Drop Dead Healthy

Can one man go from a "python that ate a goat'"physique to perfect specimen?  

That's the question A.J. Jacobs tries to answer in Drop Dead Healthy.  Upon recovering from pneumonia, the 40 something Jacobs gave himself two years to get healthy or die writing about it.   This entertaining and inspiring book details dozens of diet and exercise regimens Jacobs followed during his quest; everything from paleo to colonics to expensive gyms.  In case you were wondering: Jacobs is still alive, in relatively good shape, and wrote the book standing on a treadmill.