cover image Living Principal: Looking and Feeling Your Best at Every Age

Living Principal: Looking and Feeling Your Best at Every Age

Victoria Principal. Villard Books, $24.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-375-50488-4

After The Body Principal, The Beauty Principal and The Diet Principal, Victoria Principal is back with Living Principal: Looking and Feeling Your Best at Every Age, an earnest exhortation to greater mind-body health. It features not only skin-care tips and a 30-day diet with healthy yet indulgent recipes, including Steamed Snapper with Scallions and Ginger and Veal Piccata, but also ""Practical Steps for Tending to Your Soul."" The book concludes with a 30-day whole health plan, which includes Principal's recommendation that readers allow themselves ""ten minutes of joy"" each day. Though such suggestions may seem goofy, many of Principal's health and beauty tips are sound, and her book lacks the scolding tone found in so many women's magazines. ( Apr.)