Val Weaver, RealAge’s Blog

By Val Weaver, RealAge Last updated: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:05pm PDT

About This Author

Hi, and welcome to Beauty Eats, the blog about how specific foods—from green tea to vitamin C—can help you improve everything about your life, from aging to acne, stress to sleep problems. AND it can help make your RealAge younger. What's that? It's your biological age, not your birthday age—and what you eat can change it, because diet plays a critical part in making your skin, hair, body, and brain younger, stronger, and smarter. That's what this blog is really about: We want to make YOUR RealAge younger. To find out what it is now, take the free RealAge Test. Oh, who am I? The Editor in Chief of RealAge.com and the driving force behind these blogs—but they’re never a one-woman show. At some point, every writer, editor, researcher, nutrition expert, and medical advisor here has pitched in. How did I wind up lucky enough to be working with them? By being a food-and-health maven all my work life. While things really came into focus for me at Self, where I was editor in chief, I also spent years at Vogue, HealthDay, Working Woman, and Vegetarian Times, and did a lot of consulting at Fitness, Cooking Light, Seventeen, Longevity, and even The Walt Disney Company. Whew! That’s a lot of my life in one sentence. But it all turned out to be the perfect background for working at RealAge.com—and writing this blog. I hope you enjoy every Bite!—Val Weaver