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

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Rank: 9

With much sassy humor (they describe the adrenals as similar in shape to Mr. Potato Head's hat), they give a guided tour of the body's anatomy and major systems (hormonal, nervous, digestive, sensory, etc.) including plenty of fascinating trivia along the way. How often should you get your thyroid level checked? How much gas does the average person produce in a day?

And, most importantly, how many times a year do most people have sex?? Drs. Oz and Roizen know. They also reveal plenty of bizarre (and potentially life-saving) facts such as this: If your earlobe has a prominent vertical wrinkle, it's likely that your arteries are aging faster than they ought to be. If only 8th-grade health class had been this fun.

The docs' main goal in presenting all this info is twofold: firstly, it's your body, so shouldn't you finally learn how it works? And, secondly, they want to help teach ways of preserving the body's health and youthfulness. To that end, they've included an "Owner's Manual Diet," a 10-day menu plan designed not for weight loss, but to make you feel "years younger." Its simple recipes are each meant to benefit a certain body system, such as Tomato Bruschetta, packed with the antioxidant lycopene, which has been proven to boost immunity.

--Erica Jorgensen

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Editorials

	Amazon.com
	If there ever was a pair of docs who can make the small intestine seem truly intriguing, here they are. Dr. Mehmet Oz is an alternative-medicine maverick and a cardiologist known to implement acupuncture during open-heart... read full editorial
	From Publishers Weekly
	Anti-aging guru Roizen and celebrated heart surgeon Oz combine their popular approaches to patient-centered care in this assessment of how much, or more to the point, how little, readers know about their bodies. After taking... read full editorial
	Book Description
	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... read full editorial

Customer Reviews

	Finally plain talk from a doctor.
	(Palm Springs, CA) May 18, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars
	This book is written for the normal person. Not an idiot's guide and not a PHD required, just us normal everyday people who want to know what to do and most of all WHY! Great book!
	very good, and a great gift too!
	(Folsom ,Cali) May 21, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars
	I learned so much from this book, starting from the first chapter on. It is easy to understand, as the doctor's put things in easy and even funny terms. I found it all very interesting and helpfull. I found myself thinking... read full review
	Invasion of privacy?
	(Oslo) May 30, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars
	Honestly, at first I found it a little off-putting that a book about my tenderest organs was so confrontational and finger-pointing. But when I came to understand that this book was about pooping for a healthier life,... read full review

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