As one of the country's leading experts on nutrition and natural healing, Joel Fuhrman, M.D. has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows including: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, Today, Good Morning America, the Discovery Channel, TV Food Network, CNBC and many more. A board-certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods, Dr. Fuhrman has gained tremendous popularity among those desperate to regain their health, as well as those looking to lose weight healthfully and keep it off forever.

Dr. Fuhrman's best-selling book, Eat To Live: The Revolutionary Plan for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, was published by Little, Brown & Company in 2003 and has gone through seventeen printings. Foreign editions of Eat To Live are available in the U.K., Turkey, and Israel. He has also authored the book, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program for Conquering Disease, (1995 by St. Martin’s Press) and Disease-Proof Your Child (2005 St. Martin’s Press.) In addition to authoring books, Dr. Fuhrman is widely published in medical journals such as the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Orthopaedics and Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, as well as in consumer publications such as Mothering Magazine and Health Science.

Dr. Fuhrman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and has received the St. Joseph’s Family Practice Resident’s Teaching Award for his contribution to the education of residents. In addition, Dr. Fuhrman provides nutritional education to other physicians, and is a guest lecturer at Cornell University Graduate Program in Human Nutrition.

Dr. Fuhrman is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Health Association; Advisory Panel, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine; Diplomat, American Academy of Family Physicians; Sports Medicine Committee, Professional Skaters Guild of America; and PwC Health and Performance Advisory Panel, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Hunterdon Medical Center Flemington, NJ; medical staff, Department of Family Practice, specializing in nutritional medicine.

Joel Fuhrman is a former world class figure skater and member of the United States World Figure Skating Team. In 1973, he placed Second in the United States National Pairs Championships. In the World Professional Pairs Skating Championship in Jaca, Spain in 1976, he placed Third. His dedication to sports medicine, health and fitness, preventive care and medicine speak to these lifelong interests.

Dr. Fuhrman lives and practices medicine in Flemington, New Jersey with his wife, Lisa, daughters, Talia, Jenna and Cara and son, Sean.