John La Puma is a doctor, a chef and a big believer in "culinary medicine," which holds that the art of cooking can be scientifically applied to fight disease.

La Puma, who taught the first cooking and nutrition course for medical students in the country at SUNY Upstate Medical University-Syracuse, New York, explains in a new book written with Rebecca Powell Marx, ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover’s Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really Healthy, how everyone can add "medicine chests" to their kitchen pantries.

Editors Note: If ONLY more doctors thought this way can you imagine the impact that would have on society!