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PW talks with Joan Lunden
Appreciation and Resilience
After 17 years coanchoring Good Morning America, Lunden, then 46, was asked to
retire from the show—an event that fueled 1998’s A Bend in the Road Is Not the End
of the Road, which PW found “perky and positive.” Her 10 books have tackled
topics of personal relevance: nutrition for children and adults, the health
connection between mind and body, her experience with breast cancer.
As she gears up for the March release of her 11th, Why Did I Come
into This Room? (Forefront), about wellness and aging, she relishes her
ongoing role as a translator and disseminator of information.What got you interested in writing about health?
I started with Healthy Cooking [1996], and it came to me that I’d better
wake up and take control of myself if I wanted to be running in races in 30
years and not watching from the sidelines. The fact that the book was a success
made me wonder: if healthy living can make a difference with the outside of a body,
what can it do with the inside?
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