Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #738111 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages

Customer Reviews

Your Male Primary Care Physician's Perspective on Beauty as Health, Energy, and a Good Mood

I was disappointed in this book. Here's why:

1. The book had almost nothing to say about looking good (in your own perspective) independent of looking good because you are healthy and well groomed.

2. The information was so basic in most cases that it wouldn't serve as substitute for a briefing from a Web site devoted to the subject.

3. There were no sources for most of the suggestions which makes it hard to check out the advice.

4. I only found one set of information that was new and potentially helpful to me after plowing through all the material.

5. There's an overtly male perspective that will leave many women feeling uncomfortable with the advice. One of my favorites along these lines is a description of an ideal day as one that ends with lovemaking. That's great for men who fall asleep afterward anyway, but what about women who feel energized then?

The book makes you feel like you are being talked down to. In addition, the illustrations look like they were designed for young teenagers in the 1950s.

Much of the advice is more useful than you would expect from the brief references.

On the good side, I liked two things about the book:

1. You are encouraged to go through a lot of possible subjects to check out how you are doing. Most of us just research what we think we need to know about and might miss something that we don't know to investigate.

2. A lot of nutritional methods and alternative therapies get full mention. That's unusual in a book coming from a couple of M.D.'s.

If you liked their earlier books, you'll probably like this one, too. If you haven't read any of their books, I suggest that you skip this one and pick up one of the others.