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Your Body: The Missing Manual
By Matthew MacDonald
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Chapter 1 - Skin: Your Outer Layer
Link:
Bed bug information
Chapter 2 - Fat
Link:
BMI calculator
Books:
The Hungry Gene
(Ellen Ruppel Shell)
Rethinking Thin
(Gina Kolata)
Mindless Eating
(Brian Wansink)
Chapter 3 - Muscles
Links:
Squat
(video)
Lunge
(video)
Overhead press
(video)
Bench press
(video)
Pullover
Abdominal crunch
(video)
Bent-knee pushup
(video)
About.com exercise site
Mayo Clinic fitness site
Chapter 4 - Bones
Links:
Foods that contain calcium
Stretches and back exercises that you can do at your desk
Mayo Clinic back exercises
AAOS back exercises
Chapter 5 - The Doors of Perception
Links:
Snellen eye chart
Color-vision test
Mosquito Ultrasonic Teen Repellent
Teen Buzz ringtone
Hearing test
Whirling dervishes
(video)
Supertasting test kit
Book:
Your Brain: The Missing Manual
(Matthew MacDonald)
Chapter 6 - Your Lungs
Links:
Vocal folds in action
(videos)
Consumer Reports
Chapter 7 - Your Heart
Link:
Dash diet
Chapter 8 - Your Digestive System
Links:
Flossing walkthrough
Bird's nest soup
Book:
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
(Michael Pollan)
Chapter 9 - Your Immune System
Link:
Bacteria and virus size comparison
Chapter 10. Sex and Reproduction
Links:
Circumcision information
Penis panic phenomenon
The G-spot
Sex positions
Kegel exercises
Sex in the animal kingdom
Chapter 11 - Your Final Exit: Aging and Death
Links:
Living supercentenarians
Types of death
Books:
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
(Nesse and Williams)
Survival of the Sickest : A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
(Moalem)
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
(Sherwin Nuland)
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