You, being beautiful : the owner's manual to inner and outer beauty
(Book)

This follow-up to Roizen and Oz's current bestseller YOU: Staying Young, targets three dimensions of beauty: looking beautiful, feeling beautiful and being beautiful. True to their holistic vision, they provide tools, tips and quizzes on physical appearance--caring for hair, skin, nails, teeth, etc.; forming healthy diet and exercise habits; reading labels and selecting products; and choosing cosmetic enhancements (breast implants, Botox, tattoos, piercing and LASIK, for example).They also include practical ways to manage energy levels, ease aches and pains, prevent injury, cope with mood disorders, end addictions and create positive home and work environments. Identifying work and finances as major stressors and loving relationships as key to health and happiness, they offer insights and suggestions for developing a big-picture, spiritualized view of life. A 24-hour "ultimate beautiful day" shows readers how to implement changes into their typical schedule. The blend of beauty advice with love, work, finances and spirituality could be smoother, and the impish humor throughout is a bit strained. Still, this volume is as entertaining and challenging as other titles in the series. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Roizen and Oz are back with the latest volume in their best-selling "YOU" series. As they have done in previous titles, they approach their subject here with humor and solid medical research. They believe that beauty is more than skin deep--it is the end result of physical and attitudinal health. If we eat properly, exercise appropriately, and use cosmetics with discretion, beauty will be ours. As always, they employ a cheerful, even satirical tone and load us up with intriguing factoids in addition to their sound medical advice. Each chapter addresses a particular element: skin, hair, teeth, metabolism, aches and pains, relationships, etc. There's a lot of overlap in this title with their previous books, but all the information is true and usable. People who are interested only in beauty will get a health boost as well. Recommended; the authors will launch the book on Oprah in November.--Susan B. Hagloch, formerly with Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Roizen and Oz are back with the latest volume in their best-selling "YOU" series. As they have done in previous titles, they approach their subject here with humor and solid medical research. They believe that beauty is more than skin deep—it is the end result of physical and attitudinal health. If we eat properly, exercise appropriately, and use cosmetics with discretion, beauty will be ours. As always, they employ a cheerful, even satirical tone and load us up with intriguing factoids in addition to their sound medical advice. Each chapter addresses a particular element: skin, hair, teeth, metabolism, aches and pains, relationships, etc. There's a lot of overlap in this title with their previous books, but all the information is true and usable. People who are interested only in beauty will get a health boost as well. Recommended; the authors will launch the book on Oprah in November.—Susan B. Hagloch, formerly with Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH

Verdict Among pregnancy overviews, this book stands out as a middle ground between the prosy What To Expect style and the chatty Girlfriend's Guide style.-Mindy Rhiger, St. Paul, MN Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.

This follow-up to Roizen and Oz's current bestseller YOU: Staying Young , targets three dimensions of beauty: looking beautiful, feeling beautiful and being beautiful. True to their holistic vision, they provide tools, tips and quizzes on physical appearance—caring for hair, skin, nails, teeth, etc.; forming healthy diet and exercise habits; reading labels and selecting products; and choosing cosmetic enhancements (breast implants, Botox, tattoos, piercing and LASIK, for example).They also include practical ways to manage energy levels, ease aches and pains, prevent injury, cope with mood disorders, end addictions and create positive home and work environments. Identifying work and finances as major stressors and loving relationships as key to health and happiness, they offer insights and suggestions for developing a big-picture, spiritualized view of life. A 24-hour "ultimate beautiful day" shows readers how to implement changes into their typical schedule. The blend of beauty advice with love, work, finances and spirituality could be smoother, and the impish humor throughout is a bit strained. Still, this volume is as entertaining and challenging as other titles in the series. (Oct.)

Media-star physician authors Roizen and Oz have published no less than six bestsellers beginning with You: The Owner's Manual. Having covered optimal self-health, diet and nutrition, longevity and beauty, they now tackle the issues and questions of parents-to-be. In their familiar straightforward, colloquial and often humorous style, and assisted by ob/gyn Margaret L. McKenzie and other expert writers, they take on pregnancy and birth in this brand-extending volume. Like other pregnancy guides, the book covers all the basics: fertility; risks; prenatal nutrition and supplements; managing stress, "pregnancy brain" and mood; physical symptoms; exercise; sex; choosing a birth plan and medical professional; delivery; the postpartum period; and infant care, along with self-tests, sidebars, food plans and recipes, and content-heavy appendixes. Proceeding topic-by-topic instead of the formulaic week-by-week or month-by-month diary approach of most pregnancy books, it also provides interesting biological and physiological information about hormones, digestion, morning sickness and other maternal-fetal interaction. Although the updated edition of What To Expect When You're Expecting is in many ways a more useful reference, this volume will serve as an excellent compendium. (Dec.)