About the Author

Michael F. Roizen, MD, is the four-time #1 New York Times bestselling author and co-founder and originator of the popular RealAge.com website. He is Chief Wellness Officer and chair of the Wellness Institute of the Cleveland Clinic and Chief Medical Consultant to The Dr. Oz Show. He currently lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Mehmet Oz, MD, is a cardiothoracic surgeon. He has won nine Daytime Emmy Awards for The Dr. Oz Show. A professor of surgery at Columbia University, he directs the Complementary Medicine Program at New York--Presbyterian Hospital and performs more than fifty heart operations a year. Dr. Oz has written eight New York Times bestselling books, including Food Can Fix It, YOU: The Owner's Manual, YOU: The Smart Patient, YOU: On a Diet, YOU: Staying Young, and the award-winning Healing from the Heart.

Reviews

Gr 7 Up-Dr. Oz and the chief medical consultant for his television show want the alluded "You" in the title to be the best you possible. Thus, in true self-help manual fashion, they tackle the gamut of teen issues dealing with physical, mental, and sexual health, and all the embarrassing questions in between. Sections begin with bullet points about what readers will learn before discussion about the biology of what exactly goes on in the body that would make a teen act/look/think a certain way. "Fantastic Five: Steps for Success" end and summarize each chapter. Black-and-white illustrations are in a comic style, with facial features on a hair follicle, a tiny duck swimming in the bladder, and elfish figures demonstrating the information passing through neurons by playing baseball more prevalent than actual diagrams. Still, this is part of what makes this book accessible, though not the most authoritative. A "You Plan" presents recipes, exercises, and further tips.-Joanna K. Fabicon, Los Angeles Public Library (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.