You: The Owner's Manual

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

Classic Dr. Oz. I re-read one book from this series every once in a while. Good information about health, your body and how to stay young.

Not bad. I think it covers too wide of a base of information to be really 100% interesting. And how they love that baby aspirin. :)

A good start, but written for adults. Not too radical.