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YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger (Hardcover)
by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
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Author: Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pub. in: May, 2005
ISBN: 0060765313
Pages: 432
Measurements: 9.5 x 7.6 x 1.3 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00414
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- Awards & Credential -
The # 1 New York Times Bestseller |
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It's no exaggeration to say that You is very helpful in every way a book about health should be. It explains the most important things you should know in order to take good care of yourself. It explains your physiology in easy to understand terms with a sense of humor and playfulness makes the reading easier, but the main points are all valid. Learning to work the system to get what you need is extremely valuable advice, precious, in fact. You get solid advice about how to analyze your symptoms and proceed to use the medical system to your advantage to get well and also, important advice about how to stay well.
The many illustrations are typically clever, involved, informative, and memorable. Instead of technical terms, descriptive words and figures will often be replaced by something more, ah-hem, colloquial. For example, in the diagram accompanying discussion of male reproduction anatomy, residing within the scrotum looks to me to be Mr. Peanut, complete with top hat and bow tie. Juvenile humor? Maybe. But before you know it you'll be studying the illustrations as intently as if you were trying to find Waldo ... and learning human anatomy along the way.
The book also makes liberal use of sidebars in the form of myth busters, factoids, and quiz questions all designed to grab your attention and communicate otherwise dry subject material. The sum total is an elaborate orchestration of a whole lot of knowledge delivered in lively fashion. This isn't to say the information is a hodge-podge. The contents are structured into about ten subsystems, one per chapter, with additional chapters added for the discussion of cancer, and diet recommendations. It's a technical book, but exceptionally readable.
We highly recommend this great book to practically everyone. It's also a great gift to friends and family.
This book has been translated into major languages including Chinese.
Target readers:
Everyone who cares about his health and overall wellbeing.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a highly respected cardiovascular surgeon, is the director of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center's mechanical heart-pump program and is cofounder and director of the hospital's breakthrough Complementary Care Center. As part of the innovative surgical team at Columbia-Presbyterian, he also helped to develop the left ventricular assist device (LVAD), a complex, high-tech artificial heart that keeps patients alive while waiting for a heart transplant. Dr. Oz recently won the 1998 Books for a Better Life award. As a native of Turkey, he sees himself as a bridge between the healing ways of the West and East. He lives in New York City.
Michael F. Roizen, M.D., created the RealAge concept. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling first edition of RealAge®: Are You As Young As You Can Be? and is the coauthor, with Dr. Mehmet Oz, of the #1 New York Times bestseller You: The Owner's Manual. He is chair of the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Comprehensive Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic.
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From the Publisher:
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?
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Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
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 the quizzes in the book, readers may feel shocked by their ignorance of basic anatomy and the processes required to maintain physical and mental functioning. Each chapter focuses on a body part or system (heart, brain, digestive, reproductive, etc.) and discusses diseases associated with it; genetic and lifestyle influences on its aging process; and foods, supplements and habits that can prevent or reverse related illnesses. The book has an entertaining feel: friendly elves guide readers through illustrations of the body and cartoons feature alien creatures that enter the body and cause illness. The humor is irreverent (e.g., muscle cells surrounding dead heart tissue "start fighting with each other, like Jerry Springer's guests, instead of supporting each other, like Oprah's" [incidentally, the authors will appear on Oprah in May to promote the book]). Despite a 10-day, 30-recipe food plan and a less-is-more exercise regime, however, readers may have trouble using the information to create a lifestyle that will fulfill the authors' promise of weight loss, disease prevention and longevity. Even the recipes target one specific area of the body and weaken the overall conceptual framework. This lighthearted book will be most useful to those who like their health lessons served with a side of humor. |
John Tyler (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
This is one of those rare non-fiction best sellers that actually deserves to be a best seller. The title gets your attention, so you crack it open expecting to spend five minutes satisfying your curiosity. Before you know it an hour has gone by and you're cruising along absorbing a wealth of medical information of intimate concern to you and your family. It does this with the aid of editorial layout techniques you've seen before ... multi-choice quizzes, truth-or-myth blurbs, factoids, clever and effective illustrations. While such techniques in other books often come across as cheesy, in this book they are used effectively, probably because they are built from such valuable and interesting information. The book is large, but it's not an encyclopedia. The focus is on organs and conditions that are most important to the aging process, and conditions most preventable. It concerns issues you talk about and are concerned with, e.g., what is the greatest threat to your arteries (its not cholesterol); what's the most revealing sign that you might have Alzheimers; fact or fiction - ginkgo biloba is a good brain function booster? Especially nice is every chapter ends with specific recommended actions. The last 57 pages regard exercise, diet, recipes. Written for the layperson in a concise but fun style. I might disagree with a minor point now and then, but on the whole this is a great additional to a health and fitness library.
Each year I update my short list of recommended reading for my adult health & fitness clients. I chose books that are some combination of breakthrough, effective, satisfying, and fun. You: The Owners Manual easily makes the list. (For those interested, other books that made the list for 2006 are: Healthy Aging, Joe X, Backsmart Fitness Plan, Stretching, and George Stella's Livin' Low Carb.) |
Ingo Leung (MSL quote), Hong Kong
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Drs. Roizen & Oz have done an excellent job in guiding readers to lead healthier lives, with actionable information & vivid analogies, presented in a humorous & concise manner. The illustrations of various human body systems were nicely composed, & have made You: The Owner's Manual a surprisingly fun read. |
An Australian reader (MSL quote), Australia
<2007-01-05 00:00>
A definite must have for anybody wanting to learn how to get the most out of their body. Very informative, very humorous and very practical. Just like a regular manual you would read when you buy an appliance, this "manual" clearly outlines all the necessary parts of your body, and how they fit together to create the incredible "machine" we call the human body. The book gives maintenance advice, how to deal with trouble spots and how to ensure you get the longest lifespan out of your body. This book is a winner!! |
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