Voting Station

Jean Carper

Please vote to see the next celebrity.

Author

The Resume

    (January 3, 1932- )
    Born in Delaware, Ohio
    Middle name is Elinor
    Author of ‘Stay Alive!’ (1965), ‘Bitter Greetings’ (1967), ‘The Food Pharmacy’ (1989), ‘Stop Aging Now!’ (1996), ‘Miracle Cures’ (1998), ‘Food: Your Miracle Medicine’ (1994), ‘Your Miracle Brain’ (2002), ‘Eatsmart: The Nutrition Cookbook You Can't Live Without’ (2004), ‘Jean Carper's Complete Healthy Cookbook’ (2007), and ‘100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's’ (2010)
    Appeared on Good Morning America, Today<13424> and <23760> Dateline

Why she might be annoying:

    She films commercials for her books.
    One of her early books was titled ‘Eating May Be Hazardous to Your Health’ (self-explanatory).
    She put forth the controversial argument in her 2010 book that ‘much of the fear of old-age Alzheimer’s is exaggerated.’
    She got in on the anti-aging supplements racket, in 1996, with her own product - called Stop Aging Now! (it was rendered defunct in 2007).

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was a contributing editor to USA Weekend magazine.
    She co-wrote ‘The Dark Side of the Marketplace’ with Senator Warren Magnuson.
    She was CNN’s first medical correspondent in 1980, winning an ACE award for her segment on brain cancer.
    She won the 1995 Excellence in Journalism Award from the American Aging Association.
    Her documentary ‘Monster in the Mind’ won Best Science Documentary at the University of Bergen in Norway in 2018.
    She interviewed more than 60 Alzheimer’s authorities in the U.S. and abroad.

Credit: BoyWithTheGreenHair


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying