YOU: STAYING YOUNG, by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz et al.

The book arrived, and I snatched it out of the UPS man's hands. I read it cover to cover in one fell swoop, causing dinner to be late.To say I laughed, I cried, I ate an entire bag of chips while reading it would be an understatement. Just don't tell my doctor or she'll want to test my blood sugar.I will start off by saying that Dr. Oz is more engaging when he makes appearances on Oprah than in the pages of a book. This book seemed a little more elementary and juvenile compared to previous tomes, and there was some overlap from previous tomes in this book.There is one important difference between this book on aging and another that I've been working on: this book only describes the body's aging process and how to slow it down through foods, supplements, and exercise. Another book I've been reading is called Ending Aging by Aubrey deGray (Ph.D), and it's a lot more in-depth and slightly more technical than the YOU book, but it covers the aging processes and explains how to stop them cold. The only problem is that we don't possess all the tools, tests, and repair mechanisms yet--some are as yet undiscovered, and some lie on a researcher's work table still being tinkered with while awaiting FDA approval.If you know absolutely nothing about the aging process, or are just interested on a surface level as to what you can do about it, get this book. Otherwise, if you, too find this a juvenile read, then I urge you to seek out the Ending Aging book. For you super-duper-uber-science geeks, give Ray Kurzweil's book Fantastic Voyage a read--it contains all kinds of fascinating things that Ray thinks will be possible for life extension in the future, like nanobots in the bloodstream, growing replacement organs in the body right next to diseased or failing ones, and so forth. He also says that living to be 125+ will be a common occurrence.I find Dr. Oz more enjoyable when he visits Oprah onstage rather than on pages of a book--just my opinion. The only time I watch Oprah is when he's going to be on.