YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger
by: Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. Roizen
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Between your full-length mirror and high-school biology class, you probably think you know a lot about the human body. While it's true that we live in an age when we're as obsessed with our bodies as we are with celebrity hairstyles, the reality is that most of us know very little about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout this miraculous, scientific, and artistic system of anatomy. Yes, you've owned your skin-covered shell for decades, but you probably know more about your cell-phone plan than you do about your own body. When it comes to your longevity and quality of life, understanding your internal systems gives you the power, authority, and ability to live a healthier, younger, and better life.
The flagship book of the YOU series, which spawned three subsequent New York Times bestsellers, has now been expanded and updated to make you understand your body even better—perhaps too well.
YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition challenges your preconceived notions about how the human body works and ages, then takes you on a tour through all of the highways, back roads, and landmarks inside of you. In this update, the doctors have included a new chapter on the liver and pancreas, which will finally demystify the most exotic parts of our bodies; a new workout chapter that will finally get you moving; and nearly one hundred Q&As asked by you, the reader. It has also been updated throughout to give you up-to-the-minute know-how to not just understand what to do to keep fit, but also why and how.
The book opens with a quiz, "How Well Do You Know Your Body?," which sets the stage for the following chapters. After taking the quiz, you'll learn about all of your blood-pumping, food-digesting, and keys-remembering systems and organs, including the heart, brain, lungs, immune system, bones, and sensory organs. Each chapter also contains common myths of the particular body part that the authors will debunk.
Just as important, you'll get the facts and advice you need to keep your body running long and strong. You'll find out how diseases start and how they affect your body—as well as advice on how to prevent and beat conditions that threaten your quality of life. Complete with exercise tips, nutritional guidelines, simple lifestyle changes, and alternative approaches, YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition gives you an easy, comprehensive, and life-changing how-to plan for fending off the gremlins of aging. To top it off, this new edition includes even more great-tasting and calorie-saving recipes as part of the Owner's Manual Diet—an eating plan that is designed with only one goal in mind: to help you live a younger life.
Welcome to your body. Why don't you come on in and take a look around?
Between your full-length mirror and high-school biology class, you probably think you know a lot about the human body. While it's true that we live in an age when we're as obsessed with our bodies as we are with celebrity hairstyles, the reality is that most of us know very little about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout this miraculous, scientific, and artistic system of anatomy. Yes, you've owned your skin-covered shell for decades, but you probably know more about your cell-phone plan than you do about your own body. When it comes to your longevity and quality of life, understanding your internal systems gives you the power, authority, and ability to live a healthier, younger, and better life.
The flagship book of the YOU series, which spawned three subsequent New York Times bestsellers, has now been expanded and updated to make you understand your body even better—perhaps too well.
YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition challenges your preconceived notions about how the human body works and ages, then takes you on a tour through all of the highways, back roads, and landmarks inside of you. In this update, the doctors have included a new chapter on the liver and pancreas, which will finally demystify the most exotic parts of our bodies; a new workout chapter that will finally get you moving; and nearly one hundred Q&As asked by you, the reader. It has also been updated throughout to give you up-to-the-minute know-how to not just understand what to do to keep fit, but also why and how.
The book opens with a quiz, "How Well Do You Know Your Body?," which sets the stage for the following chapters. After taking the quiz, you'll learn about all of your blood-pumping, food-digesting, and keys-remembering systems and organs, including the heart, brain, lungs, immune system, bones, and sensory organs. Each chapter also contains common myths of the particular body part that the authors will debunk.
Just as important, you'll get the facts and advice you need to keep your body running long and strong. You'll find out how diseases start and how they affect your body—as well as advice on how to prevent and beat conditions that threaten your quality of life. Complete with exercise tips, nutritional guidelines, simple lifestyle changes, and alternative approaches, YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition gives you an easy, comprehensive, and life-changing how-to plan for fending off the gremlins of aging. To top it off, this new edition includes even more great-tasting and calorie-saving recipes as part of the Owner's Manual Diet—an eating plan that is designed with only one goal in mind: to help you live a younger life.
Welcome to your body. Why don't you come on in and take a look around?
Features:
- ISBN13: 9780061473678
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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- It's a Big Book
It's a big book with a lot of interesting information.I really like how the drawn pictures bring the words to life - makes it easier to understand.
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- I love Dr. Oz
This book is not only fun to read, it is explained so anyone can understand it.This book covers everything you need to know about your body and yourself.After reading this book, I started feeling better about myself, I love it.
Rating: - Excellent source of knowledge when trying to understand wwhat is going on in your boday
The charm of Dr. Mehmet Oz and his co-author, Michael Roizen, shines through this unusual book. I believe the authors tried hard to keep it informative and attractive. The comic book style pages and wonderful illustrations were not what any one might expect to find when reading a book on the human body! It is a valuable resource to all ages when confronting what may be going on when the person has a health problem.
Rating: - Diets
About as good as it gets if you want up to date, fact based info on diets and dieting. Helps to destroy myths and misunderstanding surounding food and eating habits. A great help for anyone looking to improve knowledge and understanding as part of a process for life style change.
Rating: - A must read
Dr Oz makes learning about the body and nutrition fun and keeps it user friendly.This is a must read for anyone trying to live a better and healthier life.
- It's a Big BookIt's a big book with a lot of interesting information.I really like how the drawn pictures bring the words to life - makes it easier to understand.
Rating:
- I love Dr. OzThis book is not only fun to read, it is explained so anyone can understand it.This book covers everything you need to know about your body and yourself.After reading this book, I started feeling better about myself, I love it.
Rating:
- Excellent source of knowledge when trying to understand wwhat is going on in your bodayThe charm of Dr. Mehmet Oz and his co-author, Michael Roizen, shines through this unusual book. I believe the authors tried hard to keep it informative and attractive. The comic book style pages and wonderful illustrations were not what any one might expect to find when reading a book on the human body! It is a valuable resource to all ages when confronting what may be going on when the person has a health problem.
Rating:
- DietsAbout as good as it gets if you want up to date, fact based info on diets and dieting. Helps to destroy myths and misunderstanding surounding food and eating habits. A great help for anyone looking to improve knowledge and understanding as part of a process for life style change.
Rating:
- A must readDr Oz makes learning about the body and nutrition fun and keeps it user friendly.This is a must read for anyone trying to live a better and healthier life.
