John McDougall, MD is a board-certified internist, author of 13 national best-selling books and the international on-line “McDougall Newsletter.” He is a practicing physician, who supervises all teaching and medical activities at highly successful 12-Day Telemedicine, TeleEducation McDougall Program.He’s national recognition as a nutrition expert earned him a position in the Great Nutrition Debate 2000 presented by the USDA. He has dedicated over 50 years of his life caring for people with diet and lifestyle medicine.

He has written a number of diet books advocating the consumption of a low-fat vegan diet based on starchy foods and vegetables. His eponymous diet, called The McDougall Plan was a New York Times bestseller. It has been categorized as a low-fat fad diet.