Judy Foreman

Nationally Sindicated Fitness, Health, and Medicine Columnist

ABOUT JUDY FOREMAN

Judy Foreman, the author of “A Nation in Pain” (2014), “The Global Pain Crisis” (2017), and “Exercise is Medicine” (2020), all published by Oxford University Press, was a staff writer at the Boston Globe for 23 years and a health columnist for many of those years. Her column was syndicated in national and international outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Baltimore Sun and others. READ FULL BIO

 

“…You should read Judy Foreman’s novel. Her mastery of non-fiction in previous books shines through and combines with a well-paced cautionary-tale. An intriguing and very welcome view point.”

George M. Church, Professor at Harvard Medical School and MIT

LATEST BLOG POST

Exercise and Telomeres

When I last wrote about the research I did on aging and exercise (Blog #4, March 23, 2020), I focused on one of the major ways biologists can tell where a person is in the aging process: the epigenetic clock. I described a process called DNA methylation, signals that tell certain genes to whether to … READ FULL ENTRY

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JUDY’S COLUMNS

Aging is one of the deepest mysteries of the universe

After all, what’s the point? Once you’ve passed your genes on to the next generation, why stick around? Why take up space and use food and other scarce resources? It’s the young who need those things to live to reproductive age. So why do old animals even exist? Or old people? … READ FULL COLUMN
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Other Books by Judy Foreman

“Judy is a compelling and very readable author, who takes a difficult and complex subject and makes it understandable, in ‘bite-size’ pieces.”
—Perry G. Fine, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Utah

NEWS FLASH

Judy spoke with Ashton Applewhite about ageism in a conversation hosted by the Boston Public Library Listen to the conversation

Judy was interviewed on the Scientific American podcast Science Talk. Listen to “Why Exercise Is So Good For You”

Judy was interviewed on New Hampshire Public Radio and talked about the connection between physical activity and aging. Listen here

Judy was a guest on That Organic Mom podcast. Listen or watch the interview or read the blog post.

 

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