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    You: The Owner's Manual FAQs
    You: The Owner's Manual FAQs
    You: The Owner's Manual FAQs
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    You: The Owner's Manual FAQs

    By Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. and Michael F. Roizen

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    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!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateDec 8, 2009
    ISBN9780061980695
    You: The Owner's Manual FAQs
    Author

    Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.

    Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., is the multiple Emmy Award-winning host of The Dr. Oz Show. He is a professor and vice-chairman of surgery at Columbia University, the medical director of the Integrated Medicine Center, and director of the Heart Institute at New York Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center.

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    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      Pretty good reference for the non-medical student/professional. Easy read, well organized, helpful important notes at the end of each chapter.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      Be the expert on YOUR bodyThis 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 helpfulChapter 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 SystemChapter 3: Do you Mind: Your Brain & Nervous SystemChapter 8: Sex Marks the Spot: Your Sexual OrgansThis 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.
    • 3/5
      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.
    • 3/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      The most down-to-earth, easy to follow health manual with simple guidelines to better health. Give it to someone you care about!
    • 5/5
      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.

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    You - Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.

    You

    The Owner’s Manual

    You: The Owner’s Manual FAQs

    Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.

    With Lisa Oz and Ted Spiker

    Illustrations by Gary Hallgren

    To our children: Alex, Arabella, Daphne,

    Jeffrey, Jennifer, Oliver, Thad, and Zoe

    Contents

    Acknowledgments

    Preface

    Begin Reading

    About the Authors

    Credits

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    Acknowledgments

    Lisa, Gary, and Ted made this book possible—and much more fun. While it may be unusual to say that the hours of book research and writing were as much fun as a party, we often felt that they were. Each delivered what they promised, when they promised it. Lisa always made us remember the stronger gender, helped redirect us toward a more upbeat, hip book, and pushed for Ted as our collaborator. Ted has a remarkable ability to embrace complex medical topics and make them fun; when he said something would be done, it was. We could not be bigger fans and admirers of his remarkable talents. Gary’s off-the-beaten-track genius came to life with stunning pictures that made us work even harder to match his creativity. Our agent Candice Fuhrman’s level head and insightful comments and negotiations brought this book to life.

    We also want to thank the group at HarperCollins who keep believing in us, and who are just great to work with: Shelby Meizlik and especially Kathryn Huck—she made herself available and is clearly a rising star.

    We also want to thank the many patients and the thousands of people who sent questions, notes, cards, and e-mails that inspired many of the thoughts in this book, and, of course, the FAQs. We now receive eight hundred thank-you e-mails a day on our Web site (www.RealAge.com/youdocs). Nothing could motivate us more. Thank you.

    Joel Harper provided the inspiration and perspiration for the new workouts added in this edition—we are appreciative and younger due to his additions.

    Finally, we wish to express our gratitude for the many hours of work he created, the great friend who brought us together—Craig Wynett. Besides being a world-class wit, Craig has a remarkable grasp of what the world needs that made him the mentor of many others before us. He took the time to connect the dots that we could not envision and provided advice that helped shape the direction of our book. Please blame him if you are unhappy with your purchase.

    Mike’s Acknowledgments

    I am grateful to the many other people who did not discard the e-mails asking them for help. Dr. Jon Walters, a physician who doubles as a home makeover expert, seemed to find time to read as he drove from Pittsburgh to Cleveland and back again to teach us how to make the metaphors appropriate for both the home repairman and the health care professional (if you were driven off the road between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, blame us). He also contributed significantly to the science, especially in the sex chapter. The family trio of Dr. Axel Goetz, Anka Goetz, and Margarthe Goetz also merits special thanks for their critical review of the science, the artistry, and the style of the book chapter by chapter. I also want to thank Debbie Schwinn, MD, PhD, of UW, Seattle; Jeff Watson, DDS; John Hoepner, MD; John Campodonico; Sydney Unobskey; Jim Graham; Chas Brendler, MD; Roz Wattell; Marcie Anthone; Kandi Amelon; Jennifer Plant; Linda DeFrancisco; and Irwin Davis, who each took red pen to more than one chapter. Ruth Klein made the diet chapter easier to follow with her revisions. I also need to thank Tracy Hafen, who taught me a magnificent amount about exercise; Sukie Miller and Anita Shreve, for saying the early chapters were just what they wanted to read; the many gerontologists and internists who read sections of the book for accuracy; others on the RealAge team who validate and verify the content and contributed their expertise to the book, including the many who contributed recipes, such as Rich Tramonte and Gale Gand of Tru in Chicago; John La Puma, who taught me an amazing amount about cooking and nutrition, and collaboration; the staff of Rick Bayless’s restaurants; Dan Zakri, and the chefs at the Kendall College of Nutrition in Chicago, who created many of the recipes; Shivani Chadha and Kate Poneta, the research associates who worked tirelessly to analyze the nutrients and calculate the RealAge effect of each recipe; especially Donna Szymanski (she must have incredible patience—she taught me how to cook, and she cooked every recipe we tested—over 350—at least three times); and our tasters, especially the Wattels of Lettuce Entertain You.

    I also want to acknowledge the passion and tough love from the staff of the Center for Partnership Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital

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