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You: The Owner's Manual: An Insiders Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger by Michael F. Roizen M.D., Mehmet Oz M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz (2005, Hardcover)
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You: The Owner's Manual: An Insiders Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger by Michael F. Roizen M.D., Mehmet Oz M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz (2005, Hardcover)
Author: Gary Hallgren, Ted Spiker, Michael F. Roizen M.D., Mehmet Oz M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, Lisa OzPublisher: HarperResourceLanguage: English
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This entertaining, user-friendly, and information-packed guide to healthy living is by two doctors who are experienced household names in the health book field: Mehmet Oz, cardiologist and author of HEALING FROM THE HEART, and David Roizen, who is known for the RealAge diet books. The doctors begin with a self-test on the body and how it works--and chances are the results will underscore the old idea that true knowledge begins with the realization that we do not know. Using sidebars, illustrations, and a humorous bedside tone, this very rich tome explains how the various systems of the body function--and what can go wrong with the brain, the heart, the lungs, the digestive system, etc. The ultimate goal here is longevity. By turning knowledge into action, we are stimulated to live better and longer through diet and exercise based on this greater knowledge of our bodies and ourselves. The book includes a section with recipe and food plans. Readers of YOU will place importance on the "me" in their lives, making this a keeper that can go on the home reference shelf.
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This entertaining, user-friendly, and information-packed guide to healthy living is by two doctors who are experienced household names in the health book field: Mehmet Oz, cardiologist and author of HEALING FROM THE HEART, and David Roizen, who is known for the RealAge diet books. The doctors begin with a self-test on the body and how it works--and chances are the results will underscore the old idea that true knowledge begins with the realization that we do not know. Using sidebars, illustrations, and a humorous bedside tone, this very rich tome explains how the various systems of the body function--and what can go wrong with the brain, the heart, the lungs, the digestive system, etc. The ultimate goal here is longevity. By turning knowledge into action, we are stimulated to live better and longer through diet and exercise based on this greater knowledge of our bodies and ourselves. The book includes a section with recipe and food plans. Readers of YOU will place importance on the "me" in their lives, making this a keeper that can go on the home reference shelf.
| Key Details | |
| Author: | Gary Hallgren, Ted Spiker, Michael F. Roizen M.D., Mehmet Oz M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, Lisa Oz |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | HarperResource |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: | 0060765313 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780060765316 |
| Additional Details | |
| Illustrator: | Gary Hallgren |
| Size | |
| Length: | 417 pages |
| Height: | 9.5 in |
| Width: | 8 in |
| Thickness: | 1.5 in |
| Weight: | 32.8 oz |
Publisher's Note
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?
Outlines steps to achieving overall physical health, addressing each area of the body in a series of chapters designed to challenge popular myths while informing readers on a range of dietary, exercise, and therapeutic concerns.
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Created: 22/09/05
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YOU: The Owner’s Manual is a good quick read – though it’s purpose is to help you improve your overall health through simple explanations of health concepts, it does a great job of providing a lesson in anatomy and sound health. Each chapter is dedicated different organ systems and parts of the body. Topics covered in detail include the cardiovascular system, brain, skeletal system, joints and muscles, lungs, the digestive system and sexual organs, the immune system, skin, and a separate section that discusses cancer.
Think of this book as a primer on health. If you don’t enjoy most health books that espouse diets and feel like a step back to high school biology, you’ll appreciate this book. It is easy to read and its format reminds me of the ease of reading found in the Dummies book series. After the basics are covered, the book moves into a lifestyle action plan that acts as an easy to follow guide to improve your health. It explains adjustments that you can make to your lifestyle in order to live a longer and much healthier life. Simple tips explain how you can stay abreast of your health and avoid the see-saw of dieting and exercise.
I’m not a big fan of the diagrams and sketches in the book – it appears as if they were designed to appeal to a broad audience, but for most of us, such silly diagrams are unnecessary. Assuming you can look past that, I highly recommend this book as candidate for a cover-to-cover read and as a reference guide for your bookshelf.
Think of this book as a primer on health. If you don’t enjoy most health books that espouse diets and feel like a step back to high school biology, you’ll appreciate this book. It is easy to read and its format reminds me of the ease of reading found in the Dummies book series. After the basics are covered, the book moves into a lifestyle action plan that acts as an easy to follow guide to improve your health. It explains adjustments that you can make to your lifestyle in order to live a longer and much healthier life. Simple tips explain how you can stay abreast of your health and avoid the see-saw of dieting and exercise.
I’m not a big fan of the diagrams and sketches in the book – it appears as if they were designed to appeal to a broad audience, but for most of us, such silly diagrams are unnecessary. Assuming you can look past that, I highly recommend this book as candidate for a cover-to-cover read and as a reference guide for your bookshelf.
14 of 19 people found this review helpful.
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Created: 22/09/05
In an age where fad diets come and go faster than Hollywood celebrities change significant others, it is refreshing to find a book about taking care of YOU - as in helping your body live younger, healthier and maybe longer as a result.
The authors of this book are doctors who were part of the team that treated President Clinton's recent heart condition. One of the authors also popularized the concept of calculating your "real" age (which, depending on lifestyle may be more or less than your calendar age). They're also Oprah favorites (they were guests on the show in May 2005, which is where I first discovered them). They wrote You as an "owner's manual" to help regular people better understand how what we eat and how we live impacts every single part of our lives. The book is written in very plain English (OK, it's a little corny at times) and has lots of practical tips on how to gauge our health (e.g., you'll learn what your poop should look like and why that's important). You'll also learn how to protect the health of your heart, reduce the number of wrinkles you'll amass in a lifetime, and how increasing your tomato intake can decrease your risk of cancer and decrease arterial aging (hint, just 10 tablespoons of tomato sauce is equal in nutritional value to 165 raw tomatoes!!).
From diagrams to illustrate their points to silly jokes that drive their point home, the authors make it extremely interesting to read and easily digestible (hehe, an example of the humor you might find in this book). In a nutshell, this book provides useful information on what foods/beverages to put into your body, how much sleep to get and how to monitor yourself in order to live younger and healthier. It is a book about living healthy - not about becoming model thin - so approach it with the desire to improve the overall you.
The authors of this book are doctors who were part of the team that treated President Clinton's recent heart condition. One of the authors also popularized the concept of calculating your "real" age (which, depending on lifestyle may be more or less than your calendar age). They're also Oprah favorites (they were guests on the show in May 2005, which is where I first discovered them). They wrote You as an "owner's manual" to help regular people better understand how what we eat and how we live impacts every single part of our lives. The book is written in very plain English (OK, it's a little corny at times) and has lots of practical tips on how to gauge our health (e.g., you'll learn what your poop should look like and why that's important). You'll also learn how to protect the health of your heart, reduce the number of wrinkles you'll amass in a lifetime, and how increasing your tomato intake can decrease your risk of cancer and decrease arterial aging (hint, just 10 tablespoons of tomato sauce is equal in nutritional value to 165 raw tomatoes!!).
From diagrams to illustrate their points to silly jokes that drive their point home, the authors make it extremely interesting to read and easily digestible (hehe, an example of the humor you might find in this book). In a nutshell, this book provides useful information on what foods/beverages to put into your body, how much sleep to get and how to monitor yourself in order to live younger and healthier. It is a book about living healthy - not about becoming model thin - so approach it with the desire to improve the overall you.
34 of 39 people found this review helpful.
Written in english, not Dr. lingo !
Created: 06/10/06
I loved this book, I found myself going from chapter to chapter with ease. I read things that I just had to go share with my husband right that minute. I found it interesting that the real focus is on your body age, not your calendar age. The print is a good size, it does not resemble a medical manual at all.
The book does not sugar coat damage you are doing to your body or on how to fix it. One quote really hit home with me, "Most people know more about their Cell phone than they know about their own body." Is it true ? Think about it and then take the test in the book.
The 50 question test might put some people off, but you do not have to take it. It was a big eye opener for me. I realized that most of what I thought I knew about the body was incorrect. If you don't want to take the test, please read the answers !! Very interesting, I promise you.
The Book takes one part of the body at a time and explains them like parts of a house. The book tells you what diseases or conditions are common with that area, and what Western meds, Eastern remedies and natural herbs will strengthen or treat that area of the body. They are also very precise about dosage and what not to take.
What led me to this purchase was that I saw Dr. OZ on Oprah, discussing this book. He showed what is really in our food, this was not the usual 5lbs of fat vaccum sealed, this was partially hydrogenated oil, high fructose syrup. etc. GROSS ! I was so horrified at what I saw & heard. I went that evening and bought this book. I NEVER purchase hardback books at full price. In this case, I did!! I do not regret one penny of it !! I highly recommend this book to anyone with a body.
The book does not sugar coat damage you are doing to your body or on how to fix it. One quote really hit home with me, "Most people know more about their Cell phone than they know about their own body." Is it true ? Think about it and then take the test in the book.
The 50 question test might put some people off, but you do not have to take it. It was a big eye opener for me. I realized that most of what I thought I knew about the body was incorrect. If you don't want to take the test, please read the answers !! Very interesting, I promise you.
The Book takes one part of the body at a time and explains them like parts of a house. The book tells you what diseases or conditions are common with that area, and what Western meds, Eastern remedies and natural herbs will strengthen or treat that area of the body. They are also very precise about dosage and what not to take.
What led me to this purchase was that I saw Dr. OZ on Oprah, discussing this book. He showed what is really in our food, this was not the usual 5lbs of fat vaccum sealed, this was partially hydrogenated oil, high fructose syrup. etc. GROSS ! I was so horrified at what I saw & heard. I went that evening and bought this book. I NEVER purchase hardback books at full price. In this case, I did!! I do not regret one penny of it !! I highly recommend this book to anyone with a body.
Like Any Owners Manual, Don't Read It Cover to Cover
Created: 08/02/07
This is a good book, skillfully written by intelligent authors with senses of humor. It is full of common sense techniques to improve your health with the long term in mind. The authors clearly describe how each part of your body works and then, once you understand how things are working, give you a few simple methods to improve the functioning of every part of your body from your lungs to your heart to your bones. Like any owners manual, this book is a better reference than a cover to cover read. Although the authors make it a fun read with comics and humor, it can become really dry really fast if you try to plow through the entire book in less than a week. Also, I found most of the strategies offered in the book were geared towards the aging generation and may not be as useful to younger readers looking to improve already good health or preventing future health problems. Overall, a good reference to keep in your home. You'll keep coming back to it over and over again and you'll find yourself healthier and happier as you apply the principles of the book.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful.
You, The owners manual.
Created: 17/11/06
) I found this book to be an easy to read book. If you ever wanted to think like a Doctor and not go to medical school and not deal with those $10.00 words, then this is the book for you. My father went to medical school and always told me to drink plenty of water when I was sick, he could never explained why. This book explains it in simple details how water washes infection out of you infected body so your body has less infection to attack. So simple. I found it to be so full of common every day knowledge, I bought several more and I'm giving them away for presents.
I don't read many books, but I read (You,the doctors manual.) in 5 days. Now, I'm reading it a second time. I can't put it down. We all need to know how food, exercise, infection and every day things affect us. Doctors know, why not think like a doctor without going to medical school. Just an excellent book.The best knowledge book I've ever read in my life. No more needs to be said.
Enjoy,
David.
I don't read many books, but I read (You,the doctors manual.) in 5 days. Now, I'm reading it a second time. I can't put it down. We all need to know how food, exercise, infection and every day things affect us. Doctors know, why not think like a doctor without going to medical school. Just an excellent book.The best knowledge book I've ever read in my life. No more needs to be said.
Enjoy,
David.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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