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Subjects: Anatomy, Health Issues, Human Body, Medicine, Nutrition, Science

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No
Running Time: 8x30 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2008
Available in French: No

We meet Dr Alice Roberts and her user’s guide to the body, revealing how to take care of ourselves with the appliance of science. This is a straight-talking, evidence based series.

Alice, a medical doctor and expert in anatomy, combines intelligence, youth and a real ability to communicate in this no-nonsense guide to the human body. Each episode is packed with takeaway information featuring Alice’s trademark dissections in the lab, experiments she conducts on herself and compelling personal stories.

DID YOU KNOW?
  • Only 26% of men and 30% of women eat their recommended 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day.
  • At birth a woman starts off with 700,000 eggs in her ovaries, by the age of 25 it’s reduced to about 100,000, by the time a woman reaches the menopause, there are only around 1,000 eggs left. Sperm production is continuous – men make around 300 million sperm a day.
“Dr Alice has a good bedside manner and the programmes do contain some fascinating information”  - Independent