The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
That's all we
know that's true. All the rest are man's laws.
--Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway and recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Lemelson-MIT Prize
"Michael Phelps eats 12,000 calories a day ..."
That was all Ray Cronise heard from across the room. He jerked his eyes up from the
spreadsheet and reached for the TiVo to pause the television.
Twelve thousand calories.
Ray Cronise had been a high-ranking material scientist at NASA for almost 15 years, and his
specialties included biophysics and analytical chemistry. He'd been in mission operations and
seen--hell, helped produce--research the public wouldn't see for decades.
But spending half of his life behind a computer had taken its toll. The creeping two to four
pounds per year had added up and left him weighing 230 pounds at 59.