John La Puma

John La Puma
Born John J. La Puma
1957/1958 (age 57–58)
New York, United States
Residence Santa Barbara, California, United States
Nationality American
Education University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. 1978)
Baylor College of Medicine (MD 1982)
Website www.drjohnlapuma.com

John J. La Puma[1] is an Italian-American internist, chef, and author.

Early life and education

La Puma was born in New York around 1957–1958, one of six children.[2] His family relocated to Santa Barbara, California in 1967, where La Puma attended elementary school through San Marcos High School.[2][3] He enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies and received a B.A. in biology in 1978.[2][3][4][5]

He earned his MD from Baylor College of Medicine in 1982.[1][6] He trained in internal medicine at UCLA's West Los Angeles VA. He completed the first U.S. postgraduate fellowship for physicians in clinical ethics at the University of Chicago, became a Clinical Associate Professor there and founded the Lutheran General Center for Clinical Ethics, pioneering hospital clinical ethics consultation in the U.S. He later graduated (in Professional Cooking) from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago, part of Le Cordon Bleu and received a Permaculture Design Certificate from Santa Barbara City College's program.

Career

La Puma worked in Chicago at Kendall College as a professor of nutrition.[7][8] While serving as a professor and practicing medicine, he also cooked with chef Rick Bayless at Frontera Grill and Topolobampo in Chicago weekly for four years.[3][7]

La Puma would later found CHEF Clinic, the Cooking, Healthy Eating and Fitness, program to prevent and treat obesity, maintain weight loss and measurably promote wellness. He is co-founder of ChefMDR, a health and media company, and founder of CHEF ClinicR and GlutenFreeQuiz for celiac disease screening. The first physician to teach cooking and nutrition in a U.S. medical school, he has authored over 250 original publications, book chapters, abstracts and books. His research interests include weight control, nature deficit disorder, food as medicine, employee wellness and medical ethics. His first book for the general public, written with Dr. Michael Roizen, The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat (April 2001) reached The New York Times Bestseller List. His cookbook is Cooking the RealAge Way (May 2003), co-authored with Dr. Roizen. Dr. La Puma contributed recipes to YOU: The Owner’s Manual (May 2005), co-authored by Drs. Roizen and Mehmet Oz. His ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine (April 2008) reached The New York Times Bestseller List in October 2008. In it, La Puma describes the field of culinary medicine (the art of cooking integrated with the science of medicine), taught in 22 U.S. medical schools by 2016, and its application to 40 common health conditions. He next wrote Refuel: A 24 Day Eating Plan (January 2014) to help men learn how food works in their bodies and to boost lower testosterone naturally.

Personal life

La Puma resides in Santa Barbara, California.[6]

Television shows

Honors and awards

Published works

References

  1. 1 2 "John J. La Puma, MD". http://www.cottagehealth.org. Retrieved July 7, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  2. 1 2 3 Seabaugh, Michael (May 21, 2008). "Dr. John La Puma’s New Book on Culinary Medicine Is Rooted in Santa Barbara Soil". Santa Barbara Independent (Santa Barbara, California). Retrieved July 7, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Hoffman, Lyz (May 14, 2014). "Dr. John La Puma Promotes Culinary Medicine". Santa Barbara Independent (Santa Barbara, California). Retrieved July 7, 2015.
  4. ↑ "John La Puma (CCS Biology '78) in Best of 2014 by Santa Barbara Magazine". https://ccs.ucsb.edu. March 19, 2014. Retrieved July 7, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  5. 1 2 "CCS Grads Start Off FarewellS". http://www.ia.ucsb.edu. Retrieved July 7, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  6. 1 2 "Class Notes". https://connect.bcm.edu. pp. 7 & 14. Retrieved July 7, 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  7. 1 2 "The Honor Roll". Chicago Tribune (Chicago). October 18, 2000. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
  8. ↑ Ross Ryan, Nancy (November 29, 2000). "Pick A Pepper". Chicago Tribune (Chicago). Retrieved July 7, 2015.

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