Jean Carper is a best-selling author, columnist and leading authority on health and nutrition. She is the author of 23 books, including Jean Carper's Complete Healthy Cookbook, Your Miracle Brain, Miracle Cures, the award-winning Stop Aging Now!, Food--Your Miracle Medicine and The Food Pharmacy.

Her monthly column, Eat Smart, for Gannett's Sunday supplement, USA WEEKEND, appears in 600 newspapers nationwide with a readership of 50 million. Check it out at www.usaweekend.com.

Jean is also founder of the Stop Aging Now! line of supplements.  In 1996 she formed a  corporation to formulate and market anti-aging supplements, and sold the company in January 2007 to private investors. She licensed the use of her name and image for five years on supplements she formulated, on condition the formula not be changed without her consent. Otherwise, she no longer formulates or oversees the production and promotion of Stop Aging Now! supplements or website and has no financial interests in the company.. 

Previously she was senior medical correspondent for CNN (Cable News Network), recipient of the cable industry's prestigious ACE award for a series on brain cancer. She has written more than 200 articles for national publications and appeared on numerous television programs, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, Dateline and Extra.

She received an "excellence in journalism" award for her ground-breaking book, Stop Aging Now! from the American Aging Association, made up of leading academic and governmental scientists who investigate the causes of aging and how to slow it down.

Stop Aging Now!, published in 1995, details cutting-edge research showing that specific vitamins, minerals, herbs and foods have astonishing antiaging powers. By popular demand, she produced the first Stop Aging Now! supplements in 1996, based on information in that book. Since then the supplements have been upgraded to incorporate knowledge from the latest research.

Jean Carper serves on the board of the American Aging Association, and on the advisory board of the American Botanical Council, the most reliable source of information on medicinal herbals.

She is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, and a recipient of their distinguished achievement award.