YOU: The Owner's Manual

by Michael F. Roizen

Hardcover, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

613

Publication

WilliamMr (2005), Edition: 1, 417 pages

Description

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.

User reviews

LibraryThing member priscillamylove

Be the expert on YOUR body

This book contains so much awesome information that it is hard to read it all front to back, I found that I did a lot of skipping around, depending on what information I was looking for, or what caught my eye as interesting as well.

Chapter 15 contains many FAQ's that are

helpful

Chapter 13 is all about The Owner's Manual Diet, not focusing on pounds lost, but rather making you feel better & help you live longer & slow the effects of aging. Complete with menu ideas & recipies to choose from.

Chapter 6: Gut Feelings: Your Digestive System

Chapter 3: Do you Mind: Your Brain & Nervous System

Chapter 8: Sex Marks the Spot: Your Sexual Organs

This book also touches on working out, strength training, etc.

Throughout there are different tests that you can take, such as Action 5: Test Yourself - regarding hearing, Myth or Fact? are all over the book to test your knowledge a bit & factoids are there as well to teach you a bit too.

Factoid: Excessive sweating, a condition called hyperhidosis, which affects 25% of Asians, comes from a malfunction of the sympathetic nerves that cause an inappropriate amount of sweat from your extremities.......Botox is know to help with this in 90% of people.

Myth or Fact? Your eyelashes are mostly decorative. - They primarily protect your eyes against pollen & other items in the environment, but they also can sense when something is coming towards the eye, which gives you a microsecond to react - and close it. You grow new eyelashes every 5 weeks, and some medications actually make them grow.

So needless to say, this book covers alot! Your Whole Body! It is a great reference to have on hand & I am really glad that I have this one to read & refer back to. I especially like the Q&A section at the back.

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LibraryThing member rampaginglibrarian

this book, written by two doctors, offers invaluable advice on what you should do to keep yourself healthy. Not only the things you want to do personally--diet, exercise, etc., but how to choose insurance plans, what to look for in doctors, hospitals, etc. This is an exceptional book.

LibraryThing member vlawhead

The most down-to-earth, easy to follow health manual with simple guidelines to better health. Give it to someone you care about!

LibraryThing member xiWen

Heard this book when it was featured on 'Oprah.' Interesting. You do learn a lot from it though and take a lot in. Found myself referring to it all the time with relatives and their health problems.

LibraryThing member kaelirenee

This book is OK if you know very little about anatomy. I suppose it's intended to help patients be better informed about their own bodies-how they work, what all the organs are. Hopefully, if you've taken (and paid attention to) a highschool biology class, you remember this stuff. Not for anyone

who knows anything about medicine, biology, physiology and anatomy. Or for women. The most annoying part about the book was (despite a small ammount of information about PMS), this book seemed to be entirely written for men, by men.

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LibraryThing member marysargent

The same basic idea as the Real Age books Roizen has written, i.e., what you can do to make your real age younger than your chronological age, presented in body systems – heart, lungs, bones, muscles, etc. Lots of good information, but so annoying that it was painful to read. Terminally cute.

Many pop references. The drawings had elves in them, along with lame jokes that make it harder to see what is presented. I would give it 5 stars for information and 0 stars for being annoying, so I guess that makes it a 3 star rating.

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LibraryThing member keylawk

Begins with a 50 question "quiz" to determine how "body smart" YOU are. The choices were interesting and few of the answers were easy. Most of what is held up in popular culture is truly wrong. I thought I knew most of the health mantras, but it was helpful to pick up this perspective.

LibraryThing member alittle

A lot of good information and it covers a lot, but I was put off a bit by the puns, jokes and current event references. It made this quite a bit harder to read. I suppose he's trying to reach a wide audience, but I would have preferred more depth and less wordplay.

LibraryThing member ncpoekert

YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger by Michael F. Roizen (2005)

LibraryThing member mrdmullin

Pretty good reference for the non-medical student/professional. Easy read, well organized, helpful important notes at the end of each chapter.

LibraryThing member GlennBell

The authors do a nice job of explaining physiology, anatomy, and pathology in understandable language. They add humor throughout the book to make reading the material more fun and interesting. I learned some and especially liked some of the analogies and comics. The book is a little dated now but

still very useful. I strongly recommend this book.

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