You On A Diet, by Doctors Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, is a great book and can serve as the perfect road map for those of you out there who want to start off 2007 by making healthy lifestyle changes.

You On A Diet is the perfect New Year’s Resolution book.

Nowadays most diet and health books are faddish preach fests in which so-called fitness gurus provide us with their alleged secrets.  Most of these books aren’t worth the paper that they are printed on.  This isn’t one of those books.

You On A Diet, The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management is a well-written, fun to read book that contains all of the information needed to embark on a healthy lifestyle.  Rather than just spout off statistics and tell us how bad everything is, the good doctors Roizen and Oz take the time and effort to explain how the body works before telling us why we have to do what we have to do.

The book is very funny and we’re peppered with a ton of pop-culture references.  It’s a nice change of pace to read a diet book written by people who have a sense of humor.  As a matter of fact you can almost picture Roizen and Oz wearing squirting flowers on the lapels of their lab coats.

Laughing and learning is a great combination.

Buy this book for yourself and/or for anyone you know who needs some help getting themselves on the right health and fitness track.  The diet and exercise plans are simple and common-sense based and will be easy for anyone to implement.

I don’t give away info that’s contained in books that I like so if you want to get the details read You On A Diet, be You On A Diet.  These two egg heads – and I mean that in the most positive way possible – have done a fantastic job of putting this book together and deserve to get paid for their efforts.  So buy it and read it.

So without further ado here are my thoughts on You On A Diet delivered in my patent pending style.

Hook: Two experts in the field – the doctor dudes – are going to help us to “unravel biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at the buffets or store so much fat.”  As a result of this “unraveling” we’ll cut down on our waist size and as a result be healthier.

Gimmick:  No gimmick whatsoever.  Instead Roizen and Oz tell us that they are going to arm us with the best weapon to wield in the fight against fat; knowledge.  And they deliver on this promise in spades.

Inconsistency: None in this book.  However, Dr. Mehmet Oz endorsed the god-awful Ultimate New York Diet Book and its author’s off-base approach to diet and health.  How Dr. Oz can approve of such a bad book only to create such a phenomenal book is a mystery.

Glaring Omissions: Nothing glaring.  However, rather than constantly be told that certain substances are bad for us it would be nice to constantly be told just how much of a certain substance is bad for us.  For instance, we’re told too much sugar can do all these horrible things to our bodies yet we’re never told what constitutes “too much.”  This holds true for all of the other traditional nutritional bad guys such as the bad fats, salt, etc.

Annoying Features: None.  But I am annoyed that I didn’t write this book. 

Most Outrageous Claim:  There are many incredible revelations contained in You On A Diet.  Outrageous in a good way.  Here’s one for you; our small intestines function as our second brain.  Here’s another one for you; the physical structure of your small bowel bears a very strong resemblance to that of your brain. WOW! That sounds like a fancy way to insult somebody, but it’s not.  And there’s a joke in there somewhere, but I’m feeling too mature right now to try to find it.

Say Something Nice:  Haven’t I said enough already?  You On A Diet contains all the info that anyone needs in order to change their life and start being healthy.  It would make the perfect holiday gift.

Bottom Line: There isn’t a book, piece of equipment or another person that can make you healthy or fit.  You have to take the steps to make this happen.  You On A Diet will give anyone who is interested in learning about and improving their body the best chance to do so.  Buy it.

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written by Jim from North Carolina, December 17, 2006

Great book. Really enjoyed it.