JOHN LA PUMA, M.D., appears regularly on "What's Cookin' with ChefMD?" which can be seen on Health Corner, airing on Lifetime. He is the coauthor of the bestselling "Cooking the RealAge Way" and "The RealAge Diet," and contributed recipes to the "New York Times "bestseller "YOU: The Owner's Manual," The first physician to teach cooking and nutrition in a U.S. medical school and graduate from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago, he has cooked under star chef Rick Bayless in the four-star kitchens of Frontera Grill and Topolobampo. Dr. La Puma is medical director for the Santa Barbara Institute for Medical Nutrition and Healthy Weight. Visit his award-winning website, www.ChefMD.com.
REBECCA POWELL MARX is a ChefMD partner, a medical television producer, and a journalist. Ms. Powell Marx is a 2007 International Health and Media FREDDIE Award winner for the ChefMD website.
