Jane Brody

Jane Ellen Brody (born May 19, 1941) is an American journalist/food writer principally covering science and nutrition. She wrote for The New York Times as its weekly "Personal Health" columnist from 1976 to 2022. Her column was syndicated nationwide, and she wrote several books on health. She was called the "High Priestess of Health" by Time magazine in 2008.

After graduating, she spent two years as a general assignment reporter at the Minneapolis Tribune. She was asked by the Times to write the Personal Health column, which she began in 1976 despite her initial reluctance.

She has become devoted to exercise, and in the 1980s her routine included singles tennis five days a week (less in winter), she would head out daily after rising at 5 a.m. and preparing breakfast for her family, for a 3½-mile run or ten-mile bike ride, followed by a half-mile swim in the evening. Jane Brody's Guide to the Great Beyond: A Practical Primer for Preparing for the End of Life was released in early 2009.

In February 2022, she wrote that "the time has come for me to say farewell" to her weekly column.

Awards Brody won a Penney-Missouri Award for Consumer Writing for her column in 1977.