The Body: A Guide for Occupants

by Bill Bryson

Every day, it has been estimated, between one and five of your cells turn cancerous, and your immune system captures and kills them.

Silently and remorselessly we turn to dust.

Thinking is our most vital and miraculous talent, yet in a profound physiological sense we don’t really know what thinking is.

For centuries, people ate unhealthily out of economic necessity. Now we do it out of choice.

We live in an age in which we are killed, more often than not, by lifestyle.