Carol Krucoff

Bodyworks

Carol Krucoff is an award-winning medical writer and health columnist for the Washington Post. The founding editor of the Post's Health section, she spent 10 years as a reporter and editor there before moving to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1988, where her husband is a cardiologist at Duke University Medical Center.

Krucoff launched her Bodyworks column for the Post in November 1988, and it now appears exclusively online at Better Health and in several newspapers around the country including the Miami Herald, the San Jose Mercury News and the Raleigh News & Observer. She also contributes to numerous national magazines, including Reader's Digest, Self, Sports Illustrated for Kids and the Saturday Evening Post.

Her coverage of exercise science is rooted in a strong personal commitment to physical activity. She began running in 1980 after interviewing Jim Fixx, has lifted weights with Arnold Schwarzenegger, done aerobics at Jane Fonda's Workout in California and spent her early years -- from age 5 to 30 -- training in ballet, modern and tap dance. Today she runs, practices yoga and trains extensively in karate where she holds a black belt.

Krucoff was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. She graduated with high honors from the University of Maryland's College of Journalism in 1975. She is married to Mitchell Krucoff and they have two children.