John La Puma, M.D.

John La Puma, M.D., is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine who has pioneered the idea of food-as-medicine that's tasty, including delicious eating plans for osteoarthritis pain relief, weight loss, cholesterol-lowering, anti-aging and childhood obesity. He taught the first cooking and nutrition course to U.S. medical students and is the first physician to graduate from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago. Co-author with Michael Roizen, M.D. of the bestselling books Cooking the RealAge Way and The RealAge Diet, he contributed the recipes to YOU: The Owner’s Manual. Repeatedly named "One of America's Top Physicians" by the Consumers' Research Council, and called a "Secret Weapon" by The Wall Street Journal, Dr. La Puma was honored with the National Association of Medical Communicators 2007 "Award of Excellence.” His new book, ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really Healthy will be released in April 2008.