Informative, but bad jokes ad nauseam

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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 405 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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.

Gift for older child...

This was another gift for an older child. Instead of endless trinkets,
clothes that will probably be graciously received, but returned, I decided to go in this direction instead. The Oz, et al, books are greatly appreciated and the sound advice is followed. As parents when our children were growing up, we did not have this information to share. How wonderful of the authors to allow us to bring these gifts of sound health practices to our families. I only wish that we had the books sooner!

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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

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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