You: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger - Softcover

Roizen, Michael F.; Oz, Mehmet C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061965383 ISBN 13: 9780061965388

Publisher: Collins, 2009

Synopsis

Micheal Roizen and Mehmet Oz, two powerhouse doctors in both the medical profession and in the media, have teamed up to write YOU: THE OWNER'S MANUAL - the book you should read BEFORE any other health book. It takes the mystery out of medicine and health by giving you the power to not just know what to do to keep fit, but to understand why and how. Simply put, it's an owner's manual for your body. The book opens with a quiz 'How Well Do You Know Your Body?', which will set the stage for the following chapters, each devoted to an integral part of the body including the heart, brain, lungs, immune system, bones, and sensory organs. Each chapter will contain common myths, which the authors will debunk. They will then give both the hard facts and easy ways to make the body run like a well-oiled machine. The writing style is engaging, and smart; the accompanying black and white illustrations conjure up the details and accuracy of Gray's Anatomy, but with a whimsical twist. This is a health book like no other.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The #1 bestseller that gives YOU complete control over your body and your health.

With new health studies and advice bombarding us every day, few people know much about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout the miraculous system that is the human anatomy.

YOU: The Owner's Manual challenges preconceived notions about how the human body works and ages, and takes you on a fascinating grand tour of all your blood-pumping, food-digesting, and numbers-remembering systems and organs--including the heart, brain, lungs, immune system, bones, and sensory organs.

In this updated and expanded edition, America's favorite doctors, Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, discuss how YOU actually have control over your genes. Discover 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.

There are also 100 questions asked by you, and answered by the experts. For instance, do you know which of the following statements are true?

• As you increase the amount you exercise, the rewards you gain from it increase as well.
• If you're not a smoker, you have nothing to worry about when it comes to your lungs.
• Your immune system always knows the difference between your own cells and enemy invaders.
• The biggest threat to your arteries is cholesterol.
• Memory loss is a natural, inevitable part of aging.
• Stress is the greatest ager, and controlling it changes which of your genes is on.

Did you answer "true" for any of the above? Then take a look inside. Complete with exercise tips, nutritional guidelines, simple lifestyle changes, and alternative approaches, YOU: The Owner's Manual debunks myths and gives you an easy, comprehensive, and life-changing How-To plan--as well as great-tasting and calorie-saving recipes--that can help you live a healthier, younger, and better life.

Be the best expert on your body!

About the Author

Dr Mehmet Oz is vice chair and professor of surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute. Dr Michael Roizen created the Real Age concept. He is a professor of medicine and anaesthesiology, College of Medicine, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061965383
• ISBN 13: 9780061965388
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Illustrator: Hallgren Gary