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

this is truly a "must read" for anyone. information of this should be incorporated into our Junior High curriculum where 20% of teens are overweight! just imagine when they grow to be adults. information like this saves lives. below are the top 4 information i learned from this book.1. 80% of diseases are self inflicted not genetic. (i used to think most diseases are genetic)i used to think most diseases are genetic, the hand of "God" where i have no control. not true according to both Doctors. in fact, most diseases are self inflicted ranging from obesity to unhealthy lifestyle (e.g. smoking). smoking or being fat is a personal choice and not genetic. this book explains how we abuse our body and lead to diseases. most importantly, the book teaches us how to eat, live and feel differently to prevent getting sick and be healthy.2. aging while unpreventable can be delayedheart diseases, bacterial/viral infections, stress are major cause to premature aging. the Doctors provided lifestyle, dietary and mental/spiritual information to keep young. for those who thought Dr. Oz is a lefty, atheist, he recommends religion as effective to reduce stress and improves both mental and physical health. granted, he did not specify which religion. -:)3. diet is a major factor of how we livefor those red meat, fast food, packaged/industrialized food lovers, you may not like what the Doctors recommend. which is a non-saturated fat fish or vegan diet. they also told us to eat less (there goes McD's earnings projection if everybody listened to the doctors). also, drink plentiful of water but NO soda (uh oh, there goes the Coca Cola revenues).4. exercise but doesn't mean marathon or Lance Armstrongjust 30 minutes walk everyday would do the job!i don't want to repeat what you could find in this book yourself. please read this book. you don't have to purchase it, just get it from the library. it will save you and your loved ones' lives. also, if you don't have time to read this book. catch Dr. Oz on TV, he provides the same info in his TV program.May i wish you good Health for 2012!

Simple information and diagrams take the body and it's functions and breaks it into easy to understand information. Beautifully and humorously written it's actually a pleasure to read.

I think this is a valuable book about the human body, written in terms everyone can understand. My only issue with it... the reason I didn't give it 5 stars, is that it gets a little too cutesy at times. The cartoon elf in the anatomy illustrations annoys me a little. Just a little... but the book is great. I've read a lot of health books. I know quite a bit about nutrition etc. Still, surprisingly, there are things in this book that I didn't know, or had forgotten from school. It really helps the reader to view their own body as a machine that needs to be maintained in order to run properly. We need to remember that about ourselves... Buy the book! You won't regret it.

What a fun and important book! Everyone with a body should have a copy.When I first cracked it open I landed on page 234: Figure 8.1 The Male Dipstick (yes, that's how it's titled). At first glance the full-page illustration of the male reproductive organs appears to be from any science reference book, but then I look again. Mr. Peanut is drawn hanging onto a tubule inside the scrotum.This kind of silliness permeates "You: The Owner's Manual." The humor and breezy tone makes it a surprisingly easy read.The first two-thirds of the book covers everything in the human body, from the heart and brain to the lungs and liver. The last third focuses on ways to keep your body healthy. A 70-page chapter called the Owner's Manual Diet has more than 30 recipes, enough for a 10-day trial. The diet isn't so much about losing weight, but about "making you feel better, helping you live younger, and slowing the effects of aging." The following chapter, the Owner's Manual Workout, illustrates some simple exercises.Throughout the book are fun "Factoids." Did you know that pound for pound, the tongue is the strongest muscle? Also scattered throughout are lots of little quizzes.Under the dust jacket is a plain red cover.Here's the chapter list:1. Your Body, Your Home: Super Health2. The Beat Goes On: Your Heart and Arteries3. Do You Mind: Your Brain and Nervous System4. Motion Control: Your Bones, Joints and Muscles5. To a Lung and Healthy Life: Your Lungs6. Gut Feelings: Your Digestive System7. In Your Trunk: Your Liver and Pancreas8. Sex Marks the Spot: Your Sexual Organs9. Common Sense: Your Sensory Organs10. Sick Sense: Your Immune System11. This Gland is Your Gland: Your Hormones12. Hell Cells: Cancer13. The Owner's Manual Diet14. The Owner's Manual Workout15. FAQs

What this book managed to achieve is to lay out relatively dry and droll information in a way to make it interesting, minimally corny, and easy to understand and relate to. That is no easy.You want to know how much I like this book? It is a pretty large, relatively heavy volume, and I tossed my mystery novels out of the bag and took it with me on a long flight business trip. It's interesting enough that I wanted to read it first. I am about 2/3 through now, but I still have 2 days of trip and a long flight left.I am really impressed with this book. I've been looking to start making positive changes in my lifestyle to ensure that as I age I can delay health problems that come with it as long as possible. I never like hearing what I should be doing and instead want to understand and believe in something before making significant changes in my life.Now, if I could just figure out how to convince my husband to read it. I guess I'll have to continue informing him of what I've learned.