YOU: The Owner's Manual
An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger
Chapter One
Your Body, Your Home:
Super Health
Beautiful bodies sell magazines. Tattooed bodies attract gawkers.
Well-trained bodies win championships (and lucrative endorsement
contracts). Celebrity bodies get stalked by paparazzi, chronicled by
tabloids, and lampooned by late-night talk-show hosts. Infomercials
promise better bodies (Lose 700 pounds with this revolutionary belly
button cream!). And now, even so-called flawed bodies star as the
protagonists in one form of pop culture: plastic-surgery reality shows.
There's no doubt that corporate America has capitalized on the fact that a
beautiful body stimulates the economy as well as the hormones. We're all
for admiring the body for its curves, angles, and ability to make Nielsen
ratings soar. But maybe our obsession with skin belies the importance of
everything that chugs, churns, and pounds underneath it. Because many
people have developed a view of the human body that's more superficial
than a paper cut, we want to step back and look deeper - into places
where only surgeons, MRI machines, and the occasional ... read full excerpt from: YOU: The Owner's Manual ebook
