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YOU: Being Beautiful: The Owner's Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 70
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 1416572341
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9781416572343
ASIN: 1416572341
Publication Date: November 11, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Most people think that beauty revolves around such things as lipstick, sweet eyes, or skinny jeans -- all those things that we can see (and obsess over) in the mirror. But the fact is that beauty isn't some superficial pursuit, and it's not some random act that you can thank (or curse) your ancestors for.There are, in fact, scientific standards to beauty. Beauty is purposeful, because it's how humans have historically communicated who we are to potential mates. Beauty, in fact, is really about your health and happiness. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz bust the myths and stereotypes about the way we view ourselves -- and how we define beauty. In these pages, you'll find out why beauty isn't as much about your vanity as it is about your humanity. The doctors take a scientific, informative, and entertaining look at the three levels of beauty and explain how they all work together to form a complete and authentic YOU. Those three levels of beauty are: - Looking Beautiful: Your appearance influences your self-esteem and has major health implications. Here, the docs will tell you how you can look the way you want.
- Feeling Beautiful: So what if you have luscious lips or gorgeous locks if your joints creak and you have the energy of a rug? The docs will tell you how to improve your energy levels, beat back your life-altering aches and pains, and come to grips with some of life's toughest stresses.
- Being Beautiful: By improving your relationships with your loved ones as well as with others, you'll be well on your way to finding true happiness. That's the ultimate goal: Having all three levels of beauty working together so you can have a happy and healthy life.
You'll start off by taking the ultra-revealing and validated YOU-Q Test to help you assess where you are on your own beauty scale and where you want to be. Take the test, see how well you do; then use the book to help you improve your score. With their usual candor and honesty, Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz break down the mechanics of beauty and explain how little adjustments in your routine can help you become a happier, healthier person. You will learn about the biology of beauty, take YOU Tests to determine where you are on the beauty scale, get tons of YOU Tips to help you improve your life, as well as learn the secrets of the Ultimate Beautiful Day. From hair to toenails, Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz go through every part of your body to explain how different foods, vitamins, creams, gels, and injections can really boost your looks. They scrutinize the beauty myths that bombard us every day and offer an unbiased perspective on which ones cause more harm than good. You will be able to revamp your beauty regimen (or start a new one from scratch). They'll also take a close look at chronic pain, mood swings, low energy, and financial stresses. And they'll dive into the science of building relationships, finding happiness, and using spirituality to help you define your own levels of true beauty. Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz act as tour guides navigating the tricky but exciting terrain of today's beauty industry. YOU: Being Beautiful is your all-inclusive ticket into the world -- the real world -- of beauty.
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 Too Much Fluff, Not Enough Meat November 23, 2008
Despite the book's claims and attempts to appear like a revolutionary and scientific breakthrough, there's nothing in these pages that you couldn't pick up from a middle school health class.
Most of the book's contents are sheer fluff. It begins with a quiz designed to rate how beautiful you feel. It's entirely pointless in that the results tell you what you already know ("You want to make changes" - well duh, that's why you bought the book in the first place), and the results are never utilized further. There are further 'quizzes' of this type scattered throughout the book, all of them just as meaningless and time-wasting as the first.
The pages are chock-full of other such 'factoids' that have little bearing on self-esteem or beauty. Did you want to know the mating habits of lions? You'll read about it here, for entirely unfathomable reasons other than to make you glad you're not a lioness. The information presented is insultingly simple, and you don't need to pay ANY amount of money to have someone tell you 'washing your hair will improve your beauty! IT'S TRUE!' or 'if your teeth are flat, then you probably grind your teeth!' What's worse are the scattered recommendations that ARE NOT scientifically proven, and fully admitted to.
One such example is the discussion of aromatherapy, where one section warns against using products that arouse allergic reactions. But in the very next set of paragraphs, they recommend using lavendar and peppermint scents (saying that there's no scientific proof as to their effectiveness, they just 'like' them), when a large percentage of people are biologically allergic to lavendar.
There are countless 'witticisms' and attempts to be funny that drown out any possibly useful tidbits (and believe me, there's only a scant handful if that), with unhelpful footnotes that only lead you to yet more crappy jokes. The 'helpful' diagrams depicting the scenario at hand are loaded down with more of this tripe; apparently they thought it was necessary to include an anteater in the woman's uterus to suck up the you-know-what, along with a duck swimming in the bladder. Why? I! DON'T! KNOW!
Don't waste your money on this garbage. Unless you have no real concept about the importance of bathing regularly and need to be told how to wash your face, all you'll be buying is common sense laced heavily with painful failed attempts at wit.
Beauty Means Vitality November 15, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I enjoyed reading "You: Being Beautiful" because its message emphasizes how health and beauty are connected and we need to keep reinforcing this message. The quizzes, quips and quality advice make this a good springboard for building status and affiliation with others. This book covers a lot of terrain which makes it a bit broad, but it meshes well with my own book,Addicted to Stress: A Woman's 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in Life where I provide a specific proven program for women who want behavior changing steps that they can process and control themselves to harness their power and turn all that stress into strength. Stress will always land on your doorstep, but you don't have to constantly open the door
 Ayurveda and Beauty November 14, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
What is real Beauty? Roizen and Oz tell us in clear direct ways.
I found this book great to combine with the Yale University doctor's book: Ayurveda: A Comprehensive Guide To Traditional Indian Medicine for the West. In that book, Dr. Frank John Ninivaggi MD adds the Eastern perspective to understanding and creating wellness in body, mind, and spirit. Wow! two superb works by medical doctors.
I'M RECOMMENDING IT TO MY CLIENTS November 12, 2008
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
I was a little skeptical of a book written for women by men, however these guys are really knowledgeable and straight forward in their advice and that's what got my attention. I especially appreciated the part where they talk about how your appearance influences ones self-esteem. I've seen this in my therapy clients --- and the authors give advice on how you can feel much better about yourself. No matter your age, the key is to feel beautiful by taking healthy steps to achieve that feeling --- and anyone can do it --- beauty or not! This book covers a lot of topics that women will appreciate despite the fact that the authors are men! Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D. [[ASIN:1571744398 The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Mid-Life and Beyond)
Feeling beautiful already November 12, 2008
23 out of 40 found this review helpful
I'm a fan of the authors and have read all of their books. What I enjoyed most about You: Being Beautiful is that it targets beauty from three essential angles. They show you how to look beautiful, feel beautiful, and even BE beautiful. As you might expect, they offer a ton of test and tips to help you work on all your beauty areas from your hair, to your skin, your teeth, and so on.
They also take the time to consider beauty as a mental element of a person, both from the pyschological image you have of yourself to keeping stress down and other things in life that are as harmful to your mind as they are to your body. It's a holistic approach that really does leave you feeling as beautiful as you are bound to look after following their tips!
Another book I strongly recommend because I've enjoyed it immensely and have made some major changes since reading it (a healthy mind is a beautiful mind) is The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book
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