Your Body

Your Body: The Missing Manual. Do you know you shed skin more frequently than a snake? Or that no matter how much you diet or exercise, the number of fat cells you have rarely changes? This entertaining and informative tour of your body explains these and many other fascinating facts, and provides practical advice to fine-tune the vessel you inhabit.

Matthew MacDonald is a developer, author, and educator in all things Visual Basic and .NET. He's worked with Visual Basic and ASP since their initial versions, and written over a dozen books on the subject, including The Book of VB .NET (No Starch Press) and Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly). He has also written Excel 2007:The Missing Manual, Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual, Access 2007:The Missing Manual, and Access 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual, all from O'Reilly. His web site is www.prosetech.com.

The Missing Credits	p. vi
Introduction	p. 1
From the Outside In
Skin: Your Outer Layer	p. 7
The Protective Wrapper	p. 8
Skin and the Sun	p. 13
Going Deeper	p. 18
The Oil Factory	p. 21
Your Temperature Control System	p. 23
Hair	p. 30
Fat	p. 37
The Purpose of Fat	p. 38
Fat Up Close	p. 39
Taking Stock of Your Body Fat	p. 44
Where Fat Lives	p. 51
Understanding Your Body's Anti-Starvation System	p. 55
Muscles	p. 65
Meet Your Muscles	p. 66
Exercise	p. 72
A Grab Bag of Strength Exercises	p. 80
Bones	p. 89
The Skeletal System	p. 90
Living Bone	p. 92
Joints	p. 95
Your Spine	p. 98
The Doors of Perception	p. 105
Vision	p. 107
Hearing	p. 115
Smell	p. 124
Taste	p. 127
The Machinery Inside
Your Lungs	p. 133
The Respiratory System	p. 134
Breathing	p. 138
The Path to Your Lungs	p. 140
Your Voice	p. 145
Pollution	p. 149
Your Heart	p. 157
The Pump Inside	p. 158
The Circulatory System	p. 164
Heart Attacks	p. 168
Cardio Exercise	p. 172
Your Digestive System	p. 179
In Your Mouth	p. 180
Your Stomach	p. 186
Your Small Intestine	p. 190
Your Large Intestine	p. 195
Your Immune System	p. 205
Self-Defense	p. 206
Bacteria	p. 212
Viruses	p. 220
Cancer	p. 226
Flaws in the System	p. 229
Sex and Death
Sex and Reproduction	p. 235
Male Sex Organs	p. 236
Female Sex Organs	p. 243
The Main Event	p. 252
Your Final Exit: Aging and Death	p. 257
Life Expectancy	p. 258
Why We Die	p. 261
Aging	p. 265
The Anatomy of Death	p. 269
The Final Word	p. 275
Index	p. 277
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