Taylor is the author of <i>Cutting Myself In Half</i>, a book that showcases Taylor's unique teen fitness plan that helped him reduce his weight from 297 pounds to 145 pounds at the age of 14. Taylor is also a Tufts Medical Center teen spokesperson for a diabetes program aimed to avoid and reverse the on-set of diabetes through healthy dieting. He now views fitness as a lifestyle - one that changed, and added years to, his life.
Taylor is also a big recycler. He and a small group of tech students known as Geeks Get it Done, started a program to recycle old computers, donating many to elderly people.