Exercise is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging - Hardcover

Foreman, Judy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0190685468 ISBN 13: 9780190685461

Publisher: OUP USA, 2020

Synopsis

Investigative health journalist Judy Foreman shows how we can extend the healthy lifespan and reduce the lingering, debilitating effects of aging through exercise and its myriad effects on dozens of molecules in the brain, the muscles, and other organs.

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About the Author

Judy Foreman is a nationally syndicated health columnist who has won more than 50 journalism awards and whose columns have appeared regularly in the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Baltimore Sun, and other national and international outlets. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College, served in the Peace Corps in Brazil for three years, and received a Master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From 2000 to 2001, she was a Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. She has been a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She has also been the host of a weekly, call-in radio show on Healthtalk.com. She has won more than 50 journalism awards, including a George Foster Peabody award for co-writing a video documentary about a young woman dying

of breast cancer, and she is author of A Nation in Pain: Healing our Biggest Health Problem (Oxford, 2014) and The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2017).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190685468
• ISBN 13: 9780190685461
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384