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 About Dr. La Puma
Dr. La Puma is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine. He has pioneered the idea of food-as-medicine that's tasty, including delicious eating plans for weight loss, cholesterol-lowering, anti-aging and childhood obesity . He hosts the weekly TV segment "What's Cooking With ChefMD?" Sundays on cable network Lifetime Television in the national TV series "Health Corner." Lifetime reaches more than 90 million households and What's Cooking With ChefMD is seen by at least 250,000 viewers, 25-54 each week.

Dr. La Puma is a best-selling author. His first general audience book became a New York Times best-seller: The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat; his first cookbook became an Amazon #1 Cookbook : Cooking the RealAge Way: Turn Back Your Biological Clock, both published by HarperCollins and co-authored with Michael Roizen, MD. Dr. La Puma developed recipes for the New York Times #1 best-seller You the Owner's Manual. His new book ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Roadmap to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease and Getting Really Healthy answers the question "What do you eat for that?"
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Dr. La Puma is a popular speaker, and has given over 400 lectures to professional groups and 300 lectures to educationally-interested audiences as a keynote speaker. He has also been a consultant and spokesperson for companies such as CIGNA, Caremark and Kraft. He has appeared on NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, PBS and CNN outlets. The New England Journal of Medicine, the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have published his work. USA Today, Prevention, Reader's Digest, Parade and Newsweek have featured his work as well. RealAge has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Today and hundreds of others.

Formerly a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Professor of Nutrition at Kendall College's School of Culinary Arts, and cook at James Beard-award winning Chef Rick Bayless' Topolobampo in Chicago, Dr. La Puma also graduated from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago (now a Cordon Bleu school) in Professional Cooking, and taught the first Nutrition and Cooking Course for Medical Students in the U.S., at SUNY.

He performed his residency in internal medicine at West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center and UCLA, and completed the first postgraduate fellowship in general internal medicine and clinical medical ethics in the U.S., at the University of Chicago. Dr. La Puma is the author or co-author of over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 150 other contributions to the medical literature and 3 medical books, including a CME book. Founding Editor of Alternative Medicine Alert , the leading evidence-based newsletter for clinicians on dietary supplements and integrative approaches, Dr. La Puma is also a recognized expert in CME, informed consent and wellness practices, and has testified as an expert in legal cases.

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". He is based in Santa Barbara, California. Contact Dr. La Puma , securely and encrypted.
 
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