Snag You, The Owners Manual: Your Body, Your Home: Super Health (Excerpt) Written By Michael F. Roizen Distributed As Volume

your fulllength mirror and highschool 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 skincovered shell for decades, but you probably know more about your cellphone 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 betterperhaps 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 QampAs asked by you, the reader.
It has also been updated throughout to give you uptotheminute knowhow 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 bloodpumping, fooddigesting, and keysremembering 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 bodyas 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 lifechanging howto plan for fending off the gremlins of aging.
To top it off, this new edition includes even more greattasting and caloriesaving recipes as part of the Owner's Manual Dietan 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 Forget diet books that promise a miracle indays or less, This is the only book you need to be and stay motivated and it operates on a very basic level, If you understand the mechanics of your body, you will find yourself consciously and unconsciously making better life choices, I own this book in print and audio and I go back to it once a year or so just to remind myself to make healthy choices.
Yes, the jokes are painfully corny but they do bring levity to what could be a monotonous subject for many people, This book is a great first step for those wanting to educate themselves towards the body's various functions, It's greatest asset however is its brutal honesty, it doesn't make false promises towards changing your life, It breaks down everything on a scientific level and leaves the progress up to you but it won't pull punches either, It will systematically explain to you what smoking and alcohol does to your body, how your body cannot wholly digest artificial sugars, the poison of being an inactive deskjockey etc.
If you are looking for miracle ABs in two weeks with no life changes, this isn't the book for you, If you are looking for honest facts, education, and astoundingly bad puns give it a try, Michael F. Roizen, MD.