More on Mind and Body
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Body Signs: How to be Your Own Diagnostic Detective, by Joan Liebmann-Smith and Jacqueline Nardi Egan (Bantam, $25). Check yourself out -- for everything from puffy lips to crusty nipples -- and see what your body is trying to tell you.
A Brief History of Anxiety . . . Yours and Mine, by Patricia Pearson (Bloomsbury, $23.95). Another malady examined by someone who knows it from the inside -- and who presents the alarming statistic that 35 percent of college students seek treatment from their campus mental health center.
The Shameless Carnivore: A Manifesto for Meat Lovers, by Scott Gold (Broadway, $24.95). After a sleepless night, you might be tempted to revive yourself with some red meat. Go ahead, says Gold, who also claims to like "many vegetables."
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, by John J. Ratey (Little, Brown, $24.99). Ratey, who teaches at Harvard Medical School, emphasizes that exercise not only tunes up the body and makes you feel good, it also charges your mind.
Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head? The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies, by Brett Kahr (Basic, $28), would seem to offer some respite from the above concerns -- although you have to wonder about the anxiety level of the author, a therapist who has collected fantasies from more than 23,000 people willing to share them.
-- Dennis Drabelle
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