You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management | Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. Roizen |...

You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management | Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. Roizen | I've never learned so much about digestion and hunger

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	You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. Roizen Free Press, 2006 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 687 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Everyone SHOULD own this one

Even if you never go one a diet, you need to review this book. Just learning how your body works makes you want to take better care of this wonderful body we have. I thought I knew how my body works but there are things in this book that I never knew...but I do now. If you want to grow old gracefully, and we are all going to grow old, read this book now and do take good care of your body. These Doctors know exactly what they are talking about. It's very easy reading and very worth the time and effort.

I've never learned so much about digestion and hunger

You On A Diet is a great book. You'll learn a ton about your body and how food works within your body.

It seems like there isn't much new here, other than this is a healthy carb, lower calorie eating plan. This diet is about general guidelines, not hard and fast rules.

I would highly recommend this book in conjuction with the Beck Solution which is a congnative therapy approach to dieting, some of which is lightly covered in You On A Diet.

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Info for Anyone who goes on a Diet

This book explains what seemed to be unexplainable. How to work with your own body's physiology to beat those extra pounds!

Fantastic food facts wrapped in dumb humor

On one hand, I have learned more about how my body works with regard to food by reading this book than I ever have with any other source. The content of this book is fantastic, and if you know nothing about how hunger works, this is a great introduction. That said, it is a book specifically designed to be popular, and as such, is jammed-packed with an equal amount of infuriatingly annoying garbage. I respect the aim of this book, and I understand completely that if all one is given is a dry medical pamphlet reiterating the same food facts, then no one will ever take their weight seriously. This does not, however, excuse the overuse of "Housewife Humor." These are jokes that seem to specifically appeal to the scores of chubbies who spend their afternoons eating Thin Mint sugar burritos while watching Oprah. It is no surprise, then, that this book was featured on Oprah as part of it's promotion.

The diet, which is what everyone will be buying it for, emphasizes eating the same foods over and over again. The reason is that if you make what you eat automatic, you won't deviate and eat random junk that'll mess up your insides. Plus, even if you eat healthy, varying your foods drastically all the time hinders your weight-loss goals, because of the extra effort that it takes inside of you to sort it all out. A major point in this plan that I can vouch for is eating nuts as a snack throughout the day to manage your hunger. I've been using peanuts, and because it takes longer for your body to break them down and digest them, they prevent you from being hungry all day. So eat nuts as snacks. The foods they suggest you purchase are nice, but I suspect that if you live in a small town, they're completely unreasonable. Some of the recipes look alright, though. I'll let YOU be the guinea pig and tell me how they taste.

The book ends with a look at pills and medical procedures that can be used to lose weight. Biggest news to me: You can't lose cellulite, and liposuction only works to shape areas. Something which struck me as funny was that certain antidepressants cause weight gain, so if you're depressed about being fat and take these, you'll gain more weight, get more depressed about being fat, take some more, etc. Also mentioned are the three major surgeries for messing with your innards in order to kill your appetite. I'd go into more detail, but I don't feel like it.

Overall, I think that for what it is, it's a good book. It's annoying, and you won't be reading it for pleasure, but the advice inside is worth the time. There is one major problem with the book that needs to be addressed, and it's this: The book spends way too much time going into loving detail about foods that you can't eat. It mentions donuts, cookie dough, chips, french fries, etc., all the while trying to get you to forget about them. Instead of talking about how delicious carrots and other veggies and fruits taste, they constantly mention in a joking fashion junk food. Every time I read this book I wanted to eat candy, and it irritated me. To show you how bad it got, when I was reading this book at work I decided to eat a huge slice of ice cream pie in the freezer, and I wasn't even hungry. It's pretty astounding that, with as much time as they put into studying how the mind works with regard to hunger, they would disregard that crucial piece of information.

This book is a quick read, but I suspect that if you read it at all, it won't be cover-to-cover. I strongly advise you to read parts two and three, which deal with the science of hunger. These parts are filled with good information, even if the pop culture references are as annoying as Simon Cowell and Paris Hilton running a Swiffer over your face while you're trying to prevent Eva Longoria from stealing your DVD collection of Friends, Season 2. So read it, but ideally get it for free at your local library. I say this because I think you should read it, but I don't think it's worth your money.

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Some good information

There is some good diet tips in this book and a lot of information you don't need to know, like how your body digests food. I wish there were more tips and motivation then the science behind it.

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