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You Staying Young is like many books on health and aging in that it has a lot of good information. Even if parts of it put you off or fall a little flat, if you change any of your habits for the better and that improves your overall health and quality of life - it's worth the price in hardback, which is not chump change at $26.00.
Doctors Mehmet and Oz talk about what ages the human body, how many of the agers are habits and environmental issues we can change, and how to tell what your actual age is. There are a lot of quizzes and helpful tips. They even come right out and tell us exactly what vitamins and supplements we should be taking, and it's not a short list. They focus a good deal on reducing stress, are big believers in meditation or prayer, and recommend adults take 2 baby aspirin every day for our hearts. That is one tip I started doing the day after I read it.
My complaints about You Staying Young are with the format and style. I know many doctors and writers contributed to this book, and more than one of them must fancy himself a comedian, because every paragraph reads like it ought to have a rim shot at the end. I'm not sure why they thought they needed to give us a one-liner with every explanation on the heart or colon, but they do. And it's cluttered with cartoons that look like some kind of Sponge Bob Square Pants rip off. That all gets in the way for me. It's a serious subject. I don't mind if you take it seriously.
With those caveats, there is so much good information in here. I give a qualified thumbs up for You Staying Young.
