Michael Roizen - You - Being Beautiful - The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty

The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty

with Ted Spiker, Craig Wynett, Lisa Oz, and Arthur W. Perry, M.D.

Illustrations by Gary Hallgren

To all who radiate outer beauty

because they treasure inner beauty

This publication contains the opinions and ideas of its authors. It is intended to provide helpful and informative material on the subjects addressed in the publication. It is sold with the understanding that the authors and publisher are not engaged in rendering medical, health, or any kind of personal professional services in the book. The reader should consult his or her medical, health, or other competent professional before adopting any of the suggestions in this book or drawing inferences from it. For medicine and herbal supplements, remember that herbals and nontraditional medicines can have side effects with traditional medicines and even foods. Pregnant and nursing moms should check with their doctor and pharmacist about these, and even traditional medicines.

In addition, this book sometimes recommends particular products or websites for your reference. Drs. Oz and Roizen are not affiliated in any way with such products or entities (with the exception of the Real Age website). In some instances, other coauthors or contributors may be affiliated with a referenced product or website, but recommendations were made independent of such affiliation. In all instances, bear in mind that there are many products or websites other than those recommended here that may work for you or provide useful information to you.

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Title Page You Being Beautiful The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty

Note to Readers

Dedication

Introduction

Your YOU-Q: Measure Your Inner and Outer Beauty

Part I: Looking Beautiful

1. In the Flesh: Make Your Skin Glow

2. Head of Class: How to Save Your Hair

3. Oral Victories: Your Mouth and Teeth Are a Portal to Your Inside—and Say a Lot About Your Outside

4. Digital Revolution: Shape Up Your Hands and Feet

5. Great Shape: How to Get the Body You’ve Always Wanted

Part II: Feeling Beautiful

6. Energized and Revitalized: Power Up Your Body by Resetting Your System

7. That’s Gotta Hurt: How to Manage Your Major Aches and Pains

8. Get in the Mood: What You Can Do to Straighten Out Your Mind

9. The Worry War: Solve Your Most Troubling Job and Money Issues

Part III: Being Beautiful

10. That Lovin’ Feeling: Improve Your Relationships with the People Close to You

11. That’s the Spirit: How to Find True Happiness

The Be-YOU-tiful Plan: Live the Ultimate Beautiful Day (and Improve Your YOU-Q)

YOU Tools: More Strategies for Helping You Become Even More Beautiful

Appendix: Healing with Steel - Finding the Right Plastic Surgery for You

Searchable Terms

Acknowledgments

Other Books by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. OZ

Copyright

About the Publisher

The Ideal Wash

Body Art

Hair Care

Foot Play Foreplay

Fashion Statements

Orthopedic Injuries

Breathe-Free Program

Finding Your Personality

Green Living

The Band Workout

The Yoga Workout

The Perfect Gym Bag

Health Utensils (Your Medicine Cabinet, Home Hygiene, Infection Protection)

Your Eyes

The Biophysical Battery: Energy Blood Tests

For those of you who think beauty is about mirrors, makeup, and how many pudding packs you have to sacrifice to fit into your skinny jeans, then pull up a chair, postpone your top-of-the-hour Botox appointment, and hear this.

Beauty isn’t some vapid and superficial pursuit that exists solely to sell products, wag tongues, and produce drool. Beauty is actually precisely perceived, purposeful, and rooted more in hard science than in abstract and random opinion. From the time we started prancing around the world with our body-hair parkas and leafy lingerie, evolution has pushed us to be more beautiful. And that’s why beauty serves as the foundation for our feelings, our happiness, and our existence. In fact, beauty doesn’t reflect our vanity as much as it does our humanity.

Beauty—dear appearance-obsessed friend—is health.

We already know that beauty is always on your mind, because it’s on everyone’s minds. You can’t help but think about it or suppress it—consciously or not—every time you step in the shower or in front of the mirror. It drives many of the decisions you make about exercise and eating, and it determines how you choose between the black dress and the white pants.

This kind of traditional beauty—the outer kind—really isn’t just about looking good. Outer beauty serves as a proxy of how healthy you are; it’s the message you send to others about your health. *Way back when—before we could decode your genome, use fertility tests to see when you’re ovulating, and order MRIs to see what was going on with your liver—people used beauty as the serious assessment of the potential health of a partner. Beauty was the best way to figure it out (and in a tenth of a second, mind you). Now, if you take the concept of beauty a few steps deeper, you realize that inner beauty—the idea of feeling good and being happy—also has tremendous health implications in every aspect of your life.

But for so long, we’ve had it all wrong. We’ve thought of beauty as nonessential and superficial. Just look at our most popular beauty-based clichés:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Translation: Just as we all have different taste buds, we all have different beauty buds, as well. Some like blond; some like brown. Some like their men to wear boxers; others prefer leopard-print G-strings.

Don’t judge a book by its cover. Translation: Don’t make assumptions or judgments about people just because they have big boobs, no hair, or a belt that’s longer than a circus tightrope.