Jane Brody

For a recent birthday, Jane Brody received a T-shirt that proclaimed "Still Perfect-After All These Years." Once she stopped laughing, she realized it should have said: "Still Trying After All These Years." A health expert, Brody tries to be good to her body, to fuel it right and move it regularly, so that it will continue to be good to her.

Though Brody follows a regular regimen, she is no fanatic. Moderation and variety, not deprivation and denial, are her watchwords. To keep her body from "rusting out," she insists on daily physical activity, alternating between walking, cycling, swimming, ice skating, tennis, hiking, gardening and cross-country skiing. The result is a woman who is more robust, energetic, youthful, and trim at 62 than she was at 16.

Brody received her BS degree in biochemistry from the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University and a Masters degree in science writing from the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism. After two years as a general assignment reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, she joined The New York Times as a full-time specialist in medicine and biology. In 1976 she became The Times' Personal Health columnist. Her widely read and quoted column appears every Tuesday in The Times' Science section and in more than 100 other newspapers around the country.

Brody has also written scores of magazine articles and lectures frequently on health and nutrition to all types of audiences. She has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows throughout the country and has received numerous prestigious awards for journalistic excellence. In 1987, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Princeton University. She also holds honorary doctorates from Hamline University in St. Paul, and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Brody has written ten books including the best sellers Jane Brody's Nutrition Book and Jane Brody's Good Food Book. Her other books include Jane Brody's Good Food Gourmet; Jane Brody's Allergy Fighter, The New York Times Book of Health, and The New York Times Book of Women's Health.

Brody will be the first to tell listeners that a healthy lifestyle leads to happiness. Her speeches are informative and influential, as she reminds us all how important eating right and regular exercise can be.