Book Review: YOU: The Owner’s Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger |
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How many people have ever said that they wished they came into this world with an owner’s manual. Mehmet Oz hopes to answer that question by providing you with just that. YOU: The Owner’s Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger
You’ll be starting the book with a quiz that will ask you just how much you know about your body. The questions are not terribly difficult, but you may be surprised by just how many you get wrong and how many you get right. This was an interesting way to open the book and offers the reader motivation to keep going to figure out what they don’t know. A very clever first entry and one that undoubtedly served the author well.
After the quiz, you’ll be learning about each organ and part in your body through each successive chapter. I enjoyed the sections in each chapter that were devoted to dispelling common myths about that particular part or organ and found that the information was presented very well. At no time did the book become hard to read, which could not have been easy for the author. Much of this information is hard to digest, but he did an incredible job of breaking everything down into easy to understand terms.
The book also includes a great selection of recipes that are designed to help you implement the advice given throughout the book. This was a nice tough and the recipes actually ended up turning out very well. Including a plan that readers could follow once they’ve read the book was a terrific idea and makes it quite easy to put all of this information to good use.
Overall, while this may not be a book that you are dying to read, it is certainly one that is ideal for a rainy day. There is always something to be gained by learning more about how your body functions and what you can do to keep it in good working order. I was pleasantly surprised by many sections in the book and would recommend it to anyone that was looking for more information on the basics of how to stay fit and healthy.
There are times when it lags a bit, but overall, when it comes to understanding how your body works, this is one of the better books on the subject that I have ever read. The book is certainly well worth the price and will provide you with many different things to think about. If you slept through science as a kid, you’ll probably learn quite a few new things about yourself in this book and even if you’re well versed in the human body and how it operates, you still may learn a few more things. Well worth the read and the money.
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September 30th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I read this book. As an MD and someone who preaches healthy style of living left and right,
I think this book is fantastic manual. It should be a text book in grade schools and colleges.
As most of the books I read, this book came from my local library and I loved it so much, I had to renew it 6 times. Love it!