5 stars (Oz and Roizen make anatomy lessons entertaining and offer sound advice for staying healthy.) - `YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that will Make You Healthier and Younger' is an interesting health book which teaches readers how the body works in relation to its anatomy and central systems, including hormonal, nervous, digestive, sensory organs, and immune. It also covers topics that deal with the brain, heart, digestive, reproductive glands, lungs, bones and joints. Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen have managed to make learning these topics both entertaining and enjoyable by including illustrations of pathogenic creatures whose role it is to portray illnesses that harm the body. There are also illustrations of benevolent elf creatures whose role it is to guide readers through different parts of the body in terms of names and functionalities.
The authors have also incorporated a sense of humor, trivia, and a diet plan. In terms of humor, we have analogies between the activities of muscle cells when engulfing deceased heart tissue and the fighting that regularly presents itself on daily talk shows. In terms of trivia, the authors discuss the frequency at which one should have one's thyroid level checked. They reveal the quantity of air biscuit floatation produced by an average human per day. They also expose information regarding the quantity of times that most persons engage in intercourse. Finally, the authors invite their readers to try a 10-day, 30-recipe diet plan designed to benefit certain systems of the body such as that of immunity.
This is an important book because not only does it mention how diseases start and the consequent effects that they have on one's body, but it also provides readers with advice on how to prevent or quash conditions that bear the potentiality to endanger the quality of their lives. Moreover, it also offers advice for ways to preserve the body's health and youthfulness, which in the long run, could yield such desirable results as weight loss, disease prevention, and longevity. One other aspect of this book that is particularly praiseworthy is that it invites readers to test their knowledge of the human body by including a fifty-question quiz prior to the book's first chapter.
In conclusion, `YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that will Make You Healthier and Younger' will be a useful tool for readers looking to educate themselves in the areas of the anatomy and functionality of the human body. It will also be a valuable resource for readers seeking ways to ward off signs of aging while keeping themselves in a healthy physical state in the process. Recommended highly.
Reviewer: Kelvin.
5 stars (Interesting book) - I loved getting taken through a tour of all the highways, back roads, and landmarks inside of my body. I feel better able to make decisions regarding my healthcare and that of my family after having read this book. It was also fun to take the quiz that tests your body of knowledge.
I also purchased a book I saw recommended, "The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book" and had a great time getting taken through the mind, how I think and how the brain works. A good pairing, I guess!
5 stars (Know Thy Self) - With so much hype and fluff on the marketplace, it's nice to find a book like this one which breaks it down so simply and entertainingly. |
