The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
ed titled "The Meaning of Life," excerpted here:
Which brings me to low-cal Canto and high-cal Owen: Canto looks drawn, weary, ashen
and miserable in his thinness, mouth slightly agape, features pinched, eyes blank, his
expression screaming, "Please, no, not another plateful of seeds!"
Well-fed Owen, by contrast, is a happy camper with a wry smile, every inch the laid-back
simian, plump, eyes twinkling, full mouth relaxed, skin glowing, exuding wisdom as if
he's just read Kierkegaard and concluded that "Life must be lived forward, but can only be
understood backward."
It's the difference between the guy who got the marbleized rib-eye and the guy who got
the oh-so-lean filet. Or between the guy who got a Château Grand Pontet St. Emilion with
his brie and the guy who got water. As Edgar notes in King Lear, "Ripeness is all." You
don't get to ripeness by eating apple peel for breakfast....