YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger...

YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger | Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz | An Excellent self help book!

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	YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz Collins, 2005 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 406 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

YOU MUST READ THIS...

Cicero once said: "In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men."

Virgil said: "The greatest wealth is health."

So many of us take our health for granted. It's truly THE MOST IMPORTANT asset each of us have. I am posting this review to not only share my favorite, most important health books of 2007... but more important, to hopefully convince just one person to read a book that might strengthen their health and maybe help them live a little longer and a little healthier.

My Most Important Health Books of the Year...

* You: Staying Young - Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen hit a home run with this book. The advice is sound and the nutritional recommendations are cutting edge, presenting the latest research on nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids and cayenne. This book may very well help rejuvenate your health and allow you to drop the extra pounds and possibly protect, and even reverse, certain ailments such as diabetes, high cholesterol, arthritis, and others.

* The Natural Bird Flu Cure They Don't Want You to Know About - The deadly bird flu is spreading like wildfire across Asia, and it's only a matter of time before it hits the U.S. The CDC and government officials have said as much. Unfortunately, we don't hear a lot about the bird flu in the U.S. anymore because of the media's preoccupation with O.J. and Britney Spears. This book reveals a possible natural cure to the deadly bird flu supported by 2 Nobel Prize-winning chemists.

*You: On A Diet - Another book by Drs. Oz and Roizen. While I do not like the word "diet" (it conjures images of strict calorie cutting, sacrifice, and, well, torture), this book does share a wonderful plan for finally and forever dropping those extra pounds. Let's face it, the majority of illness and ill health in America today is food related. This really is an important, worthwhile book, despite its somewhat gimmicky title.

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An Excellent self help book!

This is an excellent book that is quite useful to one and all. It encompasses information that is vital for healthy living, some of which, because of their technical nature elsewhere, would evade the lay reader's comprehension but not in this book. This book makes the knowledge, interesting, easy and relevant. I enjoyed reading this book.Fluctuating Life Let's Talk Africa and More Quest for a Dream: A Life Committed to Progress

Great Reference Manual for Beginners

Great reference book giving a simplified overview about how are bodies work and what we can do to optimize our health. One warning though, I tried reading this book from start to finish in a couple days. Probably not a good idea because I wasn't able to retain too much shortly after finishing the book. The book is essentially a simplified health reference book.

Overall, a good buy, would recommend it.

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Informative, but bad jokes ad nauseam

While highly informative and easy to read (we're talking 5th-grade reading level), all of the books in the YOU series are written in an inappropriately jocular style. The attempts to be funny are well-intentioned -- the authors are simply trying to maintain the reader's interest in what can be, to most people, a very dull topic -- but it gets old after the first chapter. Every other sentence contains some societally-relevant jab at Britney Spears or Jennifer Lopez. (In all seriousness, if you like that sort of humor, you'll probably really enjoy reading this book.) In my opinion, this made for an irritating and tedious read.

The target audience for the YOU series is obviously the Baby Boomers, and, equally obviously, it has helped a great number of people; just read the multitude of reviews below. However, if you're a Gen. Xer/Yer and just want to learn a little about the human body (damn that college TA who gave you an F in Anatomy & Physiology!), I suggest you look elsewhere.

My second gripe is that the authors incorrectly assume that all readers are positively addicted to junk food. And -- surprise, surprise -- they constantly make jokes alluding to this, in the vein of "While you're chomping away on your fourth pack of Twinkies, your body is processing...." This actually gets pretty offensive, and it continues through the book's entirety.

However, on a positive note, the diagrams and cartoons, while on the juvenile side, are easy to understand and help simplify some extremely complex processes. I did learn quite a bit from this book, depite the fact that I had to read it in small doses to avoid chucking it at the wall out of sheer irritation.

Bottom line: The YOU series is highly informative, but the never-ending attempts at societal humor make it an abrasive read.

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