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YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger
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YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger

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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.

You: The Owner's Manual 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. After taking a quiz that tests your body of knowledge, you'll learn about all of your blood-pumping, food-digesting, and keys-remembering systems and organs.

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 gives you an easy, comprehensive, and life-changing how-to plan for fending off the gremlins of aging. To top it off, you'll also get the great-tasting and calorie-saving Owner's Manual Diet -- a thirty-recipe eating plan that's 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?

Product Details:
Author: Michael F. Roizen
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Collins
Publication Date: May 01, 2005
Language: English
ISBN: 0060765313
Package Length: 9.2 inches
Package Width: 7.6 inches
Package Height: 1.4 inches
Package Weight: 2.65 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 408 reviews
 
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5Great book. Easy to read!!  Oct 16, 2009
This is a great book with lots of information laid out in a very reader friendly format.

4Smart, simple ways to care for your body  Oct 05, 2009
In the words of Oprah's favorite doctor, Mehmet C. Oz, and his co-author, Michael F. Roizen, "We're not going to make the science simplistic; we're going to make it simple." Their book describes how your body works in understandable, engaging terms and gives you an easy-to-follow strategy for making adjustments that will extend your life and improve your health. Roizen and Oz take you on a tour of your body, beginning with the heart and covering all the organs. They include a realistic diet and workout plan, fun illustrations and answers to common questions. getAbstract recommends this guide to all those well-intentioned people who know they should eat right and exercise more, but want to understand why.

4Great recipes  Jun 29, 2009
A lot of handy information. The artwork and "jokes" are a little kitsch. The recipes in the back are very good, and actually tells you how that benefit your health.

5Great Book  Mar 15, 2009
YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz is a book that gives you a tour of every gland and every major system in the entire body. There are quizzes throughout the book that will help you realize just how little you know about your own body. There are many lifesaving facts in this book that will aid your journey toward living a healthy life. According to the authors "it's your body, so shouldn't you finally learn how it works?'

Never forget that a big part of living a long and healthy life involves your spiritual well being.

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5So Comprehensive, I Sold My Other Books on EBAY!  Feb 21, 2009
First of all, let me say that I have been unhealthy for 15 years. I'm only 33 so that's sad and ridiculous. I bought this book after seeing it on the Oprah show. I'm the definition of skeptical but I thought what the hay. After reading this book, I took the first step of calling my doctor and setting up a blood serum test. The tests were frightening. Where do I begin?

I had diabetes, was anemic, had a serious Vitamin D deficiency (only 17) , high blood pressure (143/93) , elevated liver enzymes (92) (fatty) liver and was 126 lbs. overweight. I just cried. I immediately began some of the suggestions in the book and followed the diet offered in the back of the book. I replaced my bacon and eggs in the morning with steel-cut oatmeal, milk and fruit. I haven't eaten red meat in three months. I only drink milk, decaf coffee, water, and occasionally a diet soda. I eat nuts everyday and fish at least three times a week. I feel like a new person. So the results? I started doing all this on Jan. 4 (My New Years's Resolution). I'm 33 lbs. lighter, off ALL my medications, I'm no longer anemic, Vitamin D deficient, and I'm down from a size 22/24 to an 18.

I personally wrote Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen because I have never been able to understand how what I eat and supplements I take affect my body. This book is so SIMPLE and I love the whimsy illustrations and simple explanations. I finally understand what to look for in a multivitamin, what my liver does, why Omega-3 is SO important, and foods that repair and restore the body.

I'm a changed person FOREVER and I'm not looking back!!!

 
 
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