YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition
An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger
Chapter OneYour 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 s ... read full excerpt from YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition ebook
