Quick-what perform you get worried about most? Your cellular phone giving you cancers? The public bathroom you’re using becoming filthy? GMOs in your food? An asteroid strike? Something else?

In this witty and evidence-based reserve, Lise Johnson and Eric Chudler get to the root of our worries, all the while using science to greatly help tame the anxiety beast.

News media, social networking, and every mom blog in the world are continuously flagging new stuff for you to get worried about. From obsessing over Lyme disease-infested ticks to fretting about amusement park safety, no-one is immune towards the pervasive ramifications of anxiety brought on by normal, everyday activity. Each topic in this wide-ranging book is put through medical scrutiny, and designated a place in the ‘get worried index,’ using the authors concluding the just things worth worrying about are those those that could cause significant harm, are likely to happen, and so are (somewhat) preventable.

Whether you are a regular worrier or a stick-your-head-in-the-sand-and-hope-for-the best type of person, you will discover something to like in this witty and informative book.