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.
The flagship book of the
YOU series, which spawned three subsequent New
York Times bestsellers, has now been expanded and
updated to make you understand your body even better—perhaps
too well.
YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and
Expanded Edition 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. In this update, the doctors have included a
new chapter on the liver and pancreas, which will finally
demystify the most exotic parts of our bodies; a new workout
chapter that will finally get you moving; and nearly one
hundred Q&As asked by you, the reader. It has also been
updated throughout to give you up-to-the-minute know-how to
not just understand what to do to keep fit, but also why and
how.
The book opens with a quiz, "How Well Do You
Know Your Body?," which sets the stage for the following
chapters. After taking the quiz, you'll learn about all of
your blood-pumping, food-digesting, and keys-remembering
systems and organs, including the heart, brain, lungs,
immune system, bones, and sensory organs. Each chapter also
contains common myths of the particular body part that the
authors will debunk.
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, Updated and Expanded Edition gives you an easy,
comprehensive, and life-changing how-to plan for fending off
the gremlins of aging. To top it off, this new edition
includes even more great-tasting and calorie-saving recipes
as part of the Owner's Manual Diet—an eating plan that is
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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