YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger (0061473677)

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Editorial Review:

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?

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Kindle edition not useful:

The Kindle edition is extremely difficult to navigate. There is no table of contents and the index has page numbers while the navigation system has locations. You have to scroll forever to find the topic you are interested in. No navigable list of contents is a big mistake.

Helpful Overview for Every "Owner":

Now that Dr. Oz is accessible to us all on TV each day, I'm particularly glad to have a couple of his books on-hand too. Like any instructional book, while they're well-written and easy to understand--as are his TV shows--my memory isn't quite what it once was. :-) I find this book helpful as an accessible overview for anyone who wants to understand the body's systems, how to live more healthily, and who longs for presentation of the subject matter in everyday language. My own work being in mind-body... more info

not what i expected:

The book was extremely elementary and too off handed to be of any use to me.

great book to turn your life around:

Easy to understand on how our body works and steps to take to make your life better and live longer. Uses humor to help you remember things and helpful easy steps to take you there. The new updated version is better than the old and lots of information to learn and remember easy.

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