TEDMED 2011
AJ Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me
A. J. Jacobs: Ako ma zdravý životný štýl takmer zabil
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Po celý rok A. J. Jacobs nasledoval každú radu o zdraví, čo mohol - od aplikovania opalovacieho krému na celé telo až po nosenie cyklistickej prilby aj počas nakupovania. Na pódiu TEDMED zdiela prekvapujúce zistenia, ktoré sa takto naučil.
AJ Jacobs - Author
Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor. Full bio
Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor. Full bio
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I've spent the last decade
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Posledné desaťročie som strávil
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subjecting myself to pain and humiliation,
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podrobujúc sa bolesti a poníženiu,
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hopefully for a good cause,
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majúc dobrý dôvod,
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which is self-improvement.
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ktorým je sebazdokonalovanie.
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And I've done this in three parts.
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A učinil som tak v troch častiach.
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So first I started with the mind.
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Najprv som začal s mysľou.
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And I decided to try to get smarter
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Rozhodol som sa pokúsiť stať sa inteligentnejším,
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by reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica
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tak, že som prečítal celú Encyklopédiu Britannica
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from A to Z --
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od A po Z--
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or, more precisely, from "a-ak" to "Zywiec."
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alebo, presnejšie, od "a-ak" po "Zywiec."
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And here's a little image of that.
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A tu je malá ukážka tohto.
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And this was an amazing year.
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Bol to úžasný rok.
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It was really a fascinating journey.
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Skutočne to bola fascinujúca skúsenosť.
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It was painful at times,
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Niekedy to bolo namáhavé,
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especially for those around me.
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najmä pre tých v mojom okolí.
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My wife started to fine me one dollar
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Moja manželka ma začala pokutovať jeden dolár vždy,
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for every irrelevant fact I inserted into conversation.
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keď som začal rozprávať o nejakom nepodstatnom fakte počas konverzácie.
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So it had its downsides.
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Takže to malo svoje nevýhody.
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But after that,
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Ale potom
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I decided to work on the spirit.
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som sa rozhodol popracovať na duši.
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As I mentioned last year,
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Ako som spomenul minulý rok,
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I grew up with no religion at all.
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vyrástol som bez akéhokoľvek náboženstva.
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I'm Jewish,
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Som židom,
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but I'm Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is Italian.
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ale asi len do takej istej miery, ako je Olive Garden talianskou.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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Not really.
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Nie, vážne.
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But I decided to learn about the Bible and my heritage
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Rozhodol som sa študovať Bibliu a moje kultúrne dedičstvo
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by actually diving in
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cez ponorenie sa do nich
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and trying to live it and immerse myself in it.
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a skúsil som tak žit a pohrúžit sa v tom.
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So I decided to follow all the rules of the Bible.
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Takže som sa rozhodol nasledovať všetky pravidlá Biblie.
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And from the Ten Commandments
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A od desiatich prikázaní
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to growing my beard --
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až po zapustenia si brady,
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because Leviticus says you cannot shave.
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pretože Leviticus hovorí, že sa nesmieš holiť.
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So this is what I looked like by the end.
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Takže takto som vyzeral na konci.
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Thank you for that reaction.
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Vďaka za takúto reakciu.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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I look a little like Moses, or Ted Kaczynski.
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Vyzerám ako Mojžiš, alebo Ted Kaczynski.
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I got both of them.
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Podobal som sa na nich oboch.
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So there was the topiary there.
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Toto bol moj strih.
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And there's the sheep.
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A tu je ovca.
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Now the final part of the trilogy
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Posledná časť tejto trilógie
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was I wanted to focus on the body
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bola, že som sa chcel sústrediť na telo
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and try to be the healthiest person I could be,
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a pokúsil som sa byť čo najzdravší človek, aký môžem byť,
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the healthiest person alive.
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najzdravší človek nažive.
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So that's what I've been doing the last couple of years.
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Toto som robil posledných pár rokov.
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And I just finished a couple of months ago.
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A skončil som len pred pár mesiacmi.
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And I have to say, thank God.
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Musím povedať, ze vďaka Bohu.
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Because living so healthily was killing me.
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Pretože žiť tak zdravo ma zabíjalo.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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It was so overwhelming,
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Bolo to ohromujúce,
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because the amount of things you have to do,
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kvôli množstvu vecí, ktoré musite robiť,
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it's just mind-boggling.
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ťažko sa to predstavuje.
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I was listening to all the experts
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Počúval som všetkých odborníkov
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and talking to sort of a board of medical advisers.
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a rozprával sa s mnohými zdravotnými poradcami.
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And they were telling me
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A oni mi povedali
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all the things I had to do.
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všetky veci, ktoré som musel robiť.
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I had to eat right,
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Musel som sa správne stravovať,
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exercise, meditate, pet dogs,
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cvičiť, meditovať, hladkať psov,
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because that lowers the blood pressure.
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pretože to znižuje krvný tlak.
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I wrote the book on a treadmill,
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Napísal som knihu na bežeckom páse,
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and it took me about a thousand miles
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a trvalo mi to približne tisíc míľ -
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to write the book.
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napísať tú knihu.
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I had to put on sunscreen.
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Musel som nosiť opalovací krém.
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This was no small feat,
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To nebol žiaden malý výkon,
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because if you listen to dermatologists,
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lebo, ak počúvate dermatológov,
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they say that you should have a shot glass full of sunscreen.
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tak oni tvrdia, že by ste mali naniesť za štamperlík opalovacieho krému.
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And you have to reapply it every two to four hours.
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A musíte ho naniesť opätovne každé dve hodiny.
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So I think half of my book advance
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Takze si myslím, že polovica mojej knihy bola vopred
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went into sunscreen.
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obalená v opalovacom kréme.
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I was like a glazed doughnut
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Bol som ako šiška v cukrovej poleve
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for most of the year.
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prevažnú časť roka.
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There was the washing of hands.
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Zahrňovalo to aj umývanie si rúk.
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I had to do that properly.
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Musel som to robiť dôsledne.
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And my immunologist told me
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A môj imunológ mi povedal,
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that I should also wipe down
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že by som tiež mal vytrieť
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all of the remote controls and iPhones in my house,
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aj všetky diaľkové ovládače a iPhone-y v mojom dome,
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because those are just orgies of germs.
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lebo tie sú čisto len orgie baktérií.
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So that took a lot of time.
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To mi zabralo veľa času.
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I also tried to be the safest person I could be,
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Tiež som skúsil byť najopatrnejší človek, akým som mohol byť,
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because that's a part of health.
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lebo aj to je súčasťou zdravia.
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I was inspired
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Bol som inšpirovaný
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by the Danish Safety Council.
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Dánskou bezpečnostnou radou.
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They started a public campaign
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Tá začala verejnú kampaň,
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that says, "A walking helmet is a good helmet."
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ktorá tvrdí, "Prilba, ktorá sa nosí aj pri chodení, je tá správna."
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So they believe you should not just wear helmets for biking,
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Oni veria, že by ste mali nosiť prilbu nielen pri bicyklovaní,
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but also for walking around.
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ale aj pri prechadzaní sa.
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And you can see there
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A tu môžete vidieť,
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they're shopping with their helmets.
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že prilby nosia aj pri nakupovaní.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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Well yeah, I tried that.
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Nuž áno, skúsil som to.
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Now it's a little extreme, I admit.
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Áno, je to trochu extrémne, pripúšťam.
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But if you think about this,
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Ale, ak sa nad tým zamyslíte,
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this is actually -- the "Freakonomics" authors wrote about this --
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je to vlastne--autori 'Freakonomics' o tom písali--
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that more people die on a per mile basis
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že viac ludi zomrie na jednu míľu
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from drunk walking
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kvôli chodeniu v stave opilosti,
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than from drunk driving.
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než kvôli šoférovaniu.
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So something to think about tonight
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Niečo na zamyslenie dnes večer,
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if you've had a couple.
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ak ste si dali zopár.
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So I finished,
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Takze som skončil,
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and it was a success in a sense.
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a bol to úspech v určitom zmysle.
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All of the markers went in the right direction.
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Všetky ukazovatele sa pohli tým správnym smerom.
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My cholesterol went down, I lost weight,
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Môj cholesterol sa znížil, schudol som,
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my wife stopped telling me that I looked pregnant.
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moja manželka mi prestala hovoriť, že vyzerám ako tehotný.
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So that was nice.
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Takže to bolo pekné.
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And it was successful overall.
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Celkovo to bolo úspešné.
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But I also learned that I was too healthy,
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Ale tiež som zistil, že som bol až príliš zdravý,
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and that was unhealthy.
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a to nebolo zdravé.
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I was so focused on doing all these things
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Tak veľmi som sa sústredil na robenie všetkých tých vecí,
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that I was neglecting my friends and family.
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že som zanedbával mojich priateľov a rodinu.
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And as Dan Buettner can tell you,
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A ako vám Dan Buettner môže povedať,
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having a strong social network
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majúc silné sociálne zázemie
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is so crucial to our health.
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je tak veľmi dôležité pre naše zdravie.
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So I finished.
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Tak som skončil.
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And I kind of went overboard
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A takpovediac som šiel cez palubu
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on the week after the project was over.
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počas týždňa, keď sa môj projekt skončil.
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I went to the dark side,
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Prešiel som na temnú stranu,
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and I just indulged myself.
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a doprial som si všetko.
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It was like something out of Caligula.
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Bolo to ako niečo z Caligula.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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Without the sex part.
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Ale bez sexu.
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Because I have three young kids,
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Pretoze mám tri malé deti,
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so that wasn't happening.
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takže to sa nekonalo.
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But the over-eating and over-drinking, definitely.
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Ale prejedanie a opíjanie sa, to určite.
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And I finally have stabilized.
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A konečne som sa stabilizoval.
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So now I'm back
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Takže, teraz som naspäť -
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to adopting many -- not all; I don't wear a helmet anymore --
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pri adoptovaní mnohých, no nie všetkých -- nenosím už viac prilbu--
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but dozens of healthy behaviors
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desiatok zdravých správaní,
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that I adopted during my year.
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ktoré som prijal počas roka.
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It was really a life-changing project.
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Bol to vskutku život-meniaci projekt.
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And I, of course, don't have time to go into all of them.
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A ja, samozrejme, nemám čas zachádzať do všetkých podrobností.
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Let me just tell you two really quickly.
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Nechajte ma však vám povedať dve veci v skratke.
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The first is -- and this was surprising to me;
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Prvá je -- a pre mňa to bolo prekvapujúce;
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I didn't expect this to come out --
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Neočakával som, že sa to stane--
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but I live a much quieter life now.
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ale teraz žijem oveľa pokojnejší život.
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Because we live in such a noisy world.
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Pretože žijeme v takom hlučnom svete.
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There's trains and planes and cars
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Máme vlaky a lietadlá a autá,
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and Bill O'Reilly, he's very noisy.
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a Bill O'Reilly, on je veľmi hlučný.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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And this is a real underestimated, under-appreciated health hazard --
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A to je v skutku podceňovaný, nedocenený zdravotný hazard--
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not just because it harms our hearing, which it obviously does,
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nielen preto, že poškodzuje náš sluch, ktorý, samozrejme, poškodzuje,
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but it actually initiates
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ale v skutočnosti podnecuje
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the fight-or-flight response.
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bojuj-alebo-uteč reflex.
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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going.
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Silný hluk spustí váš bojuj-alebo-utec reflex.
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And this, over the years,
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A toto, v priebehu rokov,
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can cause real damage, cardiovascular damage.
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môže sposobiť skutočné poruchy, srdcovocievne poruchy.
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The World Health Organization just did a big study
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Svetová zdravotnícka organizácia práve vykonala veľkú štúdiu,
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that they published this year.
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ktorú vydala minulý rok.
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And it was done in Europe.
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Bolo to spravené v Európe.
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And they estimated
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A odhadli,
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that 1.6 million years of healthy living
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že 1.6 miliónov rokov zdravého života
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are lost every year in Europe
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je stratených každý rok v Európe ako
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because of noise pollution.
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dôsledok nadmerného hluku.
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So they think it's actually very deadly.
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Takže, podľa nich, je to v skutočnosti veľmi smrteľné.
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And by the way,
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A mimochodom,
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it's also terrible for your brain.
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je to tiež zlé pre mozog.
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It really impairs cognition.
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Vážne narušuje zmysly.
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And our Founding Fathers knew about this.
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A naši otcovia o tom vedeli.
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When they wrote the Constitution,
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Ked písali našu Ústavu,
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they put dirt all over the cobblestones outside the hall
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tak dali hlinu cez všetky dlažobné kocky vonku pred halou
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so that they could concentrate.
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tak, aby sa mohli sústrediť.
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So without noise reduction technology,
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Takže bez technológie, ktorá znižuje hluk,
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our country would not exist.
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naša krajina by neexistovala.
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So as a patriot,
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Ako vlastenec som cítil,
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I felt it was important to --
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že je to dôlezité --
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I wear all the earplugs and the earphones,
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nosím stále štuple do uší a slúchadlá --
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and it's really improved my life
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a naozaj to zlepšilo môj život
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in a surprising and unexpected way.
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v prekvapujúcom a neočakávanom smere.
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And the second point I want to make, the final point,
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A druhý bod, ktorý chcem povedať, môj posledný bod,
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is that -- and it's actually been a theme of TEDMED --
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je, že -- a vlastne to bola aj téma v TEDMED --
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that joy is so important to your health,
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že radosť je veľmi dôležitá pre vaše zdravie,
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that very few of these behaviors
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že veľmi málo z tohto správania
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will stick with me
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mi prischne natrvalo.
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unless there's some sense of pleasure and joy in them.
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Ibaže je v ňom aspoň dajaké potešenie a radosť.
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And just to give you one instance of this:
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A vám dám len jeden príklad:
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food.
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jedlo.
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The junk food industry
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Priemysel rýchleho občerstvenia
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is really great
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je vskutku úžasný
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at pressing our pleasure buttons
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na stláčanie našich gombíkov potešení,
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and figuring out what's the most pleasurable.
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a zistovaní z čoho máme najviac potešenia.
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But I think we can use their techniques
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Ale myslím si, že môžeme použiť ich techniky
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and apply them to healthy food.
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a aplikovať ich na zdravé jedlo.
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To give just one example,
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Uvediem aspoň jeden príklad,
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we love crunchiness, mouthfeel.
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zbožňujeme chrumkavosť v ústach.
08:05
So I basically have tried to incorporate crunchiness
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Tak som sa v podstate pokúsil zahrnúť chrumkavosť
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into a lot of my recipes --
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do množstva mojich receptov--
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throw in some sunflower seeds.
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pridajte zopár slnečnicových semienok.
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And you can almost trick yourself
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A takmer môžete oklamať samých seba,
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into thinking you're eating Doritos.
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že práve jete Doritos.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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And it has made me a healthier person.
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Spravilo to zo mňa zdravšieho človeka.
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So that is it.
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Takže asi toľko.
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The book about it comes out in April.
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Kniha o mojom príbehu príde do predaja v apríli.
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It's called "Drop Dead Healthy."
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Nazýva sa ''Padni k zemi smrteľne zdravý.''
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And I hope that I don't get sick during the book tour.
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A dúfam, že neochoriem počas môjho knižného turné.
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That's my greatest hope.
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V to dúfam najviac.
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So thank you very much.
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Ďakujem Vám veľmi pekne.
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(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
AJ Jacobs - AuthorImmersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor.
Why you should listen
AJ Jacobs' writings stand at the intersection of philosophy, Gonzo journalism and performance art. Stubbornly curious and slyly perceptive, he takes immersive learning to its irrational and profoundly amusing extreme -- extracting wisdom and meaning after long stints as a self-styled guinea pig. For his widely circulated Esquire article "My Outsourced Life," he explored the phenomenon of outsourcing by hiring a team in Bangalore to take care of every part of his life -- from reading his emails to arguing with his wife to reading bedtime stories to his own son. A previous article, "I Think You're Fat," chronicled a brief, cringe-inducing attempt to live his life in Radical Honesty, telling all the truth, all the time.
Jacobs is author of The Know-It-All, which documents the year he spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, uncovering both funny and surprising factoids but also poignant insight into history and human nature. In 2007 he released The Year of Living Biblically, in which he attempted to follow every single rule in the Bible as literally as possible for an entire year. His recent book The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment is a collection of numerous personal experiments. including living according to George Washington's rules of conduct, outsourcing every single task to India, and posing as a woman on an online dating site.
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