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

 

“Get this book, as it brings the latest science to life in a readable and exciting way. It will add to your motivation to get and stay moving and leave the reader wanting more.”

John Ratey, clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

LATEST BLOG POST

Does Exercise Really Build Strong Bones? Yes, But Not The Way You Might Think

"If you run a young pig on a treadmill, the bones get bigger," says Mark Hamrick, Ph.D., a muscle and bone researcher from Georgia. "But not an old pig." And what's true for pigs, alas, is true for humans as well. On the bright side, even though exercise can't build bone in later life, we can use … 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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“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