Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead (Paperback)

by Dave Barry (Author), Jerry O'Brien (Illustrator) "Your body is like a superbly engineered luxury automobile: if you use it wisely and maintain it properly, it will eventually break down, most likely..." (more)
Key Phrases: muscle groupings, fitness program, Stay Fit, New Look, Room Service

Editorial Reviews

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"His uncelebrity fitness book is probably the funniest thing on the market today."--People magazine

"Undaunted by the USA's hopeless devotion to physical fitness, author Dave Barry squares off against serious exercise junkies with Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead, identifying the absurdity of it all in textbook format."--USA Today
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Product Description
Fitness and vitality can be yours, writes Dave Barry-- provided you have the discipline, drive, and the plain old-fashioned guts required to procure the necessary steroids. This manual may help, too, but you'll just have to buy it and find out.

Barry on executive fitness
Today's top executives eat teeny meals and run 10 miles and play tennis and work out every day. Of course, they're so busy getting fit that many don't even know where their offices are. That's why the entire U.S. economy is now manufactured overseas.

Barry on fitness after death
A quick chill, to approximately 325 degrees below zero, yields a muscle tone that we normally associate only with world-class body builders and certain minerals!

Barry on nutrition
Every morning you should take a vitamin A pill, followed by a vitamin D, followed by an E, until you've spelled the healthful mnemonic phrase: "A DEAD CAD BAKED A BAD CAKE, ACE." And eat all the fiber-rich foods you can shove down your throat; these would be mainly your cotton candy and your Slim Jims.

Barry on junk foods
White bread and refined sugar, if eaten, cause death within hours. So it's important to watch what you eat, at least until you get it inside your mouth. After that it becomes pretty disgusting.


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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (May 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878575707
• ISBN-13: 978-0878575701
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 7.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #688,375 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best, November 24, 1998

By A Customer

"In the short space I have here, it's very difficult for me to explain all of your body's complexities and subtelties in any detail, or even get any facts right. For more information, I suggest you attend Harvard Medical School..." Along with Claw Your Way to the Top, this is my favorite Dave Barry book. Even the index is funny ("F" and "G", for example, contain the following fitness-related references: Ford, Gerald; Frequent Casual Motel Sex Diet, The; Godzilla; Gone with the Wind). Where else can you find a fitness test involving a scorpion and an elevator?

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Early Barry. . ., November 3, 2001

By	Naomi (Israel) - See all my reviews

Though not as good as his later works, definitely worth buying, though 'Dave Barry's Guide To Life' is also availiable... and contains this and three other works of similiar quality and length by the same author, while being slightly cheaper than this edition alone.
Recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get ready for guttural laughter, September 15, 2001

By	David Peet (Plano, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Classic Dave Barry! A short read that you will read twice (at least). Get ready for Dave Barry's usual hilarious views, this time on working out and staying fit. If you have a fitness area in your home of office, this book belongs there. Enjoy!