Exercise: Why A Little Each Day Keeps The Doctor Away! | Judy Foreman

Episode 59 | Today, you're gonna hear from Judy Foreman. Judy—author of A Nation In Pain (2014), The Global Pain Crisis (2017), and Exercise Is Medicine (2020)—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. Judy graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College in 1966, spent three years in the Peace Corps in Brazil, then got a Master’s from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has been a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also hosted a weekly, call-in radio show on Healthtalk.com. In the episode, Judy shares how exercise impacts our heart, brain, mood, and immune system; the most fascinating facts she learned about exercise while completing research for her book Exercise Is Medicine; the best type of exercise for optimal health...and more! Enjoy!!