John La Puma

Dr. John La Puma is twice a New York Times best-selling author, a board-certified specialist in internal medicine, a trained chef and urban organic farmer. He helps to lead a national movement in culinary medicine and nature therapy, deliciously and naturally. His most recent book is REFUEL, an eating plan for men. The leading physician voice for healthy food and nature prescriptions in health care, Dr. La Puma is an award-winning TV co-host for the national cable network Lifetime TV's Health Corner (2004), with Joan Lunden and Leeza Gibbons, host of "What's Cooking With ChefMD?" and writer and host of the national PBS Special "Eat and Cook Healthy with Dr. John La Puma!" He has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show (2009), Today (1952), Good Morning America (1975), The 700 Club (1966), PBS and NPR and has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. Repeatedly named "One of America's Top Physicians" by Consumers' Research Council and called a "Secret Weapon" by The Wall Street Journal, he is based in Santa Barbara, California, and is online at www.drjohnlapuma.com