TED | 为什么健康生活方式让我受苦？

 

演讲简介
A.J.雅各布斯用了整整一年的时间，遵循他听到的每一条健康建议--从用玻璃杯来抹防晒霜到戴着自行车头盔购物。在TEDMED的演讲台上，雅各布斯与大家分享了他在这个过程中发现的许多让人意想不到的事情。

 

 

 

 

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I've spent the last decade subjecting myself to pain and humiliation, hopefully for a good cause, which is self-improvement. And I've done this in three parts.

过去的10年时间，我一直处于悲伤和羞辱 期待着有一个好的理由改变自己。这个理由就是自我提高。于是我从三方面开始做起。

So first I started with the mind. And I decided to try to get smarter by reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z -- or, more precisely, from "a-ak" to "Zywiec.”

首先从心智开始。我决定试着让自己聪明点，比如阅读大英百科全书，从头到尾通读。更确切的说是从第一个词"a-ak"读到最后一个词"Zywiec"。

And here's a little image of that. And this was an amazing year. It was really a fascinating journey. It was painful at times, especially for those around me. My wife started to fine me one dollar for every irrelevant fact I inserted into conversation.

现在已经没什么太大印象了，这是不可思议的一年，整个过程很吸引人 。有时也很痛苦，尤其对我身边的人来说更是如此。每当我在谈话时加入一些在大英百科全书中读到的与谈话无关的事实时，我妻子就会罚我一美元。

So it had its downsides. But after that, I decided to work on the spirit. As I mentioned last year, I grew up with no religion at all. I'm Jewish, but I'm Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is Italian. Not really.

所以说这也有不好的一面。但这之后 我决定在精神层面上做些文章。就像我去年提到的那样 我从小就没有宗教信仰。我是犹太人，像美式Olive Garden餐厅里做的意大利餐那样，我不像传统的犹太人。真的不像。

But I decided to learn about the Bible and my heritage by actually diving in and trying to live it and immerse myself in it. So I decided to follow all the rules of the Bible. And from the Ten Commandments to growing my beard -- because Leviticus says you cannot shave. So this is what I looked like by the end.

但是我决定去了解一下圣经和犹太传统文化，通过真正进入到其中，让自己完全融入到那个环境中去。所以我决定遵循圣经的所有条例。从十戒 到蓄起胡须-- 因为《利未记》要求人们不许剔除胡须。所以这就是我最后的样子 。

 

 

Now the final part of the trilogy was I wanted to focus on the body and try to be the healthiest person I could be, the healthiest person alive. So that's what I've been doing the last couple of years. And I just finished a couple of months ago. And I have to say, thank God. Because living so healthily was killing me. 

最后一步是我希望注重自己的身体，尽可能达到最健康的状态成为世上最健康的人。所以过去几年内我做了刚才提到的那些事情。我几个月前才刚刚停下来。我必须要说，谢天谢地终于结束了。因为那种健康的生活方式快要害死我了。

It was so overwhelming, because the amount of things you have to do, it's just mind-boggling .I was listening to all the experts and talking to sort of a board of medical advisers. And they were telling me all the things I had to do. I had to eat right, exercise, meditate, pet dogs, because that lowers the blood pressure. I wrote the book on a treadmill, and it took me about a thousand miles to write the book.

太让人受不了了，因为有许多你不得不做的事情数量多的让人难以置信。我听取了所有专家的意见和许多医疗顾问交流。他们告诉我所有必需做的事情。我必须正确膳食 锻炼，冥想，养宠物因为那样可以降低血压。我在跑步机上写书为了这本书，我跑了近1000公里

I had to put on sunscreen. This was no small feat, because if you listen to dermatologists, they say that you should have a shot glass full of sunscreen. And you have to reapply it every two to four hours. So I think half of my book advance went into sunscreen. 

我必须涂防晒霜。这可是个大工程，因为如果你严格遵医嘱的话，皮肤专家会告诉你，你要准备满满一玻璃杯的防晒霜。同时，必须每2-4个小时再涂一次。所以我觉得我的书的前一半都是关于防晒霜的。

And it was successful overall. But I also learned that I was too healthy, and that was unhealthy. I was so focused on doing all these things that I was neglecting my friends and family. And as Dan Buettner can tell you, having a strong social network is so crucial to our health.

总的来说是成功的。但是我同样意识到，我过于健康了，这本身也是不健康的。我过度专注于做那些事情，却忽视了我的朋友和家庭。就像丹·布特纳告诉大家的那样，拥有一个广泛的社交网，对我们的健康至关重要。

So I finished. And I kind of went overboard on the week after the project was over. I went to the dark side, and I just indulged myself. It was like something out of Caligula.(Laughter) Without the sex part. Because I have three young kids, so that wasn't happening. But the over-eating and over-drinking, definitely.

我于是停止了这些健康计划。健康计划中止后的一周，我让自己稍微放纵了一下。开始了不健康的生活方式，尽情放任自己。有点像《罗马帝国艳情史》里那样。（笑声）当然这里可没有关于性的部分。因为我已经有三个孩子了，因此不是你想的那样。不过大吃大喝是肯定要有的。

And I finally have stabilized. So now I'm back to adopting many -- not all; I don't wear a helmet anymore -- but dozens of healthy behaviors that I adopted during my year. It was really a life-changing project. And I, of course, don't have time to go into all of them.

最后就稳定下来了。我现在又回到从前的我了，我保留了许多过去一年中尝试过的方法——当然不是全部。我再也不带头盔了，但是还是保留了不少健康的生活习惯。这真是个能够改变生活的计划。当然，我没有足够的时间去逐个体验。