"YOU Having a Baby?" & "YOU on a Diet?" Get fun, reliable and understandable tips from Dr. Oz's YOU books. He's great!

I first discovered Dr. Oz. 2 years ago. I was in Vancouver waiting for my flight back to Italy. I was killing time in the bookstore when I saw this amazing book: “You on a Diet”. It was at that moment, as I flipped through the pages, that I realized Dr OZ was a genius.

“You on a diet” is one of those books that makes people understand how our human body, our machine, works. Anatomy, brain, physiology…. and voila’ --that’s why we all should eat healthy. Very well done.

3 years later, I am backstage of his TV show in the NBC

studios in New York. The Dr OZ show is one of the most viewed medical shows in the US. Great atmosphere, great energy.

The audience loves Dr OZ. As I sit in front of the stage I start to understand why. People love his charisma and understand him because he is able to translate complicated medical terms into everyday language. During the show he grabs a model of the blood circulation: a glass tube with a model of the brain on the top and a balloon full of red liquid-like blood on the bottom. He starts squeezing the balloon as if the heart would have an atrial fibrillation. In witnessing this, viewers finally realize what happens in their body when the heart doesn’t work properly.

Dr Oz has been so successful and there has been such a great demand from the public, that he decided to create a series of books called “ You on...”
In December 2010, JFK airport, I am in a bookstore again while waiting for my flight and see another great Dr. OZ book called “You Having a Baby”. This is the perfect resource to suggest to all my girlfriends and patients who are soon becoming mothers. Finally a book that explains not only what pregnancy is about, but it is also full of useful advice for the new mothers related to nausea, stress, kidney colic, diet.…

“You Having a Baby” is sort of a good friend that can always be with you during the 9 months of your pregnancy. A friend, a mother, or an aunt that will help you understand clearly what is going on in your body and give you the right advice… only when you ask for it. Reliable information, understandable and fun. So if you are expecting, take your time, relax, find a comfortable armchair and read!

You Having a Baby: the owner’s manual to a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy
Michael F. Roizen MD

Mehmet C. OZ. MD
Publisher: Free Press

Worth your time!