The healthiest real estate agent? 

Dawn Forgione

For a year and a half, Dawn Forgione has been a picture of health. Given her life history, that would seem to be good enough, but Forgione is aiming higher: She'd like to be the picture of health.

Forgione, a Boca Raton, Fla., real estate agent, is one of five finalists in a contest to anoint "America's healthiest person." Not that she's always been so healthy -- but that's exactly the point.

One day last February, Forgione was home watching the CBS talk show "The Doctors" as she recovered from her second hip-replacement surgery. The show was promoting a contest, held in conjunction with Prevention magazine. The goal was to find someone who lives a healthy life, has overcome personal challenges, and is inspirational to others -- or, as the contest organizers put it, is "the picture of health."

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