YOUR BODY, YOUR HEALTH
The body as
a topic of
conversation
By Dr. Mehmet C. Oz and Dr. Michael E. Roizen
SURE, BECOMING AN EXPERT on your own body can save your life. As if
that’s not enough, your superior knowledge about health can change the
lives of folks around you—not to mention give you gloating rights for having
done so. The problem is, talking about how our bodies really work—what
goes on in the digestive tract; the importance of paying attention to secretions of all sorts; the sizes, shapes and colors of diseased organs—can be
uncomfortable in many situations and downright taboo in others. So the
question is: How do you break the ice so you can talk with strangers about
the act of breaking wind?
DR. MEHMET C. OZ (left) AND
DR. MICHAEL E. ROIZEN
are the authors of the two spectacularly
successful books: YOU: The Owner’s
Manual and YOU on a Diet. Dr. Oz
serves as vice chair of surgery and
professor of cardiac surgery at Columbia
University. He is known to millions of
televsion viewers for his zestful appear-
ances (in scrubs) on the Oprah show.
Dr. Roizen is chair of the Division of
Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine
and Pain Management at the Cleveland
Clinic, where he practices internal
medicine and anesthesiology.
