YOU Being Beautiful The Owners Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty
YOU Being Beautiful The Owners Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Optimize Health and Optimize Beauty
You: Being Beautiful could as easily have been called You: Being Healthy. Roizen and Oz write: “We all want to look beautiful, feel beautiful, and be beautiful.” I’m not sure how many men would admit to that, but substitute “feel my best” and “healthy” for “beautiful,” and this describes the book. It is as much a book for men as it is for women, too.
The book is divided into three sections:
* Looking beautiful: ways to improve your external looks; your hair, skin and body
*Feeling beautiful: what’s inside counts. How to alleviate lethargy, depression and pain and end destructive behaviors/thinking.
* Being beautiful: how “to find a more authentic and happier you in your life and relationships–and how to use different strategies to do so.”
This section includes a guide to finding happiness:
*Being positive and generous
*Feeling empathy
*Finding authenticity
*Embracing emotion
* Exploring spirituality
* Understanding unhappiness
It is obvious that Michael Roizen and Melmet Oz are medical doctors, as they describe the skin, hair, etc. each section contains tips and tools to make you more beautiful (healthy.)
The doctors approach beauty from a holistic point of view and do a good job. However, a few aspects are missing–and this is where who you are (they are doctors) affects what you write. I am an interior designer and I immediately saw what was missing from this book on optimizing beauty (health): that is the environment. Dirt, clutter, toxic substances and more contribute to less than optimal health–or even serious health problems. (I am also chemically sensitive.)
The environmental aspects aside, You: Being Beautiful is a good book. The authors write: “To feel good about yourself because you have a strong self-esteem and a healthy, energetic existence that allows you to appreciate the subtle beauty of day-to-day life and because you know your purpose in life–and to show off that purpose by helping others do the same.”
There is a short section on “green living,” with basic good tips, like not using throw-away plastic bottles and using reusable bags when shopping. One tip struck me as odd, however–they advise you to save energy by sweeping floors instead of frequent vacuuming. OK–reality check–if everyone vacuumed a little less it will not save the world. Instead, sweeping encourages dirt, pollutants and other allergens to become airborne and increases the likelihood of you breathing them in–not so healthy.
As I mentioned before, the authors are medical doctors and do a good job in teaching us how to be healthy with our bodies. But, the book is not holistic, as it doesn’t account for the environment–your home, what surrounds you and what products you use on your body and in your home. The single best book that I know of (and I use it in my practice) that addresses healthy products for body and home and how to create a sanctuary–and will work very well with this book–is HARMONIOUS ENVIRONMENT: BEAUTIFY, DETOXIFY & ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOME & YOUR PLANET.
The end of the book includes the “ultimate beautiful day: daily care and maintenance schedule, a yoga guide, exercise guide, and health utensils.
Recommend
4 Stars Be more beautiful (AKA, healthier and happier)
Most of us seek a little extra ‘beauty’ because it will lead to a little extra ‘happiness’ right? From the first page, the doctors have directed this book towards the ultimate prize, happiness. Therefore they have addressed ‘beauty’ holistically. From the inside out, they show us how to make the most of the cards we’ve been dealt. How to maintain our outward appearance (hair, skin and nails etc), and how to create more beauty from within (enhanced mental wellbeing and a healthier body). Many topics in this book have been discussed already in the author’s previous publications but now you’ll follow their advice to be ‘beautiful’ rather than to be ‘young’ or just plain old ‘healthy’. Whatever your motivation, you’ll benefit from reading this book.
Jacquetta George, author of Revitalize your body, mind and soul: Be inspired to get more out of life
5 Stars The whole book is great! Great Job! Keep up the good work!
This book changed my life. I applied all the advices and after a week I saw how my skin started to change. First I stopped seeing my pores … Then I started to realize that men are actually looking at me!
What an amazing feeling! Another book I strongly recommend because I’ve enjoyed it immensely is Stop the Age Clock: Look 20 Years Younger, 20 Pounds Lighter and 200% Prettier in Only 20 Days Both books are a must read!
3 Stars lots of useful information
dr oz has a way of presenting information that is useful and helpful. i’m going to check on the rest of his books.
3 Stars Good reference book for science, but not enough alternative info
I found this to be a nice reference book, especially if you want to know things like what causes dandruff or pain, but a bit too boring to read from cover to cover. It does have nice pictures and boxes similar to the “idiot’s guide” and books “for dummies,” but it doesn’t have enough juicy tidbits of information to keep me interested.
Also I was disappointed that it didn’t have much about what to eat to obtain beauty from the inside out. There were a few things I learned of value, but some of the advice was frankly something I would not advise (”taking antibiotics for rosacea” or “steroid cream such as hydrocortisone.”
Oprah, you’ve got to get on board with a doctor that is not so entrenched in drug culture and knows more about nutrition.
