owner's manual

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I recently commented over at mrissa's place that I wish I'd been given a Users' Manual for my body instead of having to figure out so many of its systems on my own or from chance comments from others. (Like the crashes from low blood sugar if I go too long without eating - this is less obvious than you'd think, if you don't happen to actually feel hunger at the time - or that drinking morning coffee makes me queasy several hours later.) I also noted that manual would probably need to be a multi-volume set, a book on each system of concern.

Over in gymrats, someone just provided a link to a site that could be a volume in that set. The Hacker's Diet talks about weight management and a bit about exercise from a geek's point of view. There are system diagrams and formulae. I haven't read all of it yet, but so far there are a lot of interesting insights and at least one thing he's written has made me want to write a technical paper (on Corrective Actions, on how you need to combine the managers' and the engineers' point of view and one the pitfalls of falling too far to one side or the other). Maybe I will write it.