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