Dr. Sonali Ruder is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician, chef, recipe developer, and food blogger. Her passion for food started several years ago when she was doing her residency training in New York City. In 2007 she entered a recipe contest on a whim and ended up being selected from thousands of entrants to compete on a cooking competition on the Food Network. After a few years of competitive cooking, Sonali decided to take her passion for cooking one step further by enrolling in culinary school at the Institute of Culinary Education. While she was a student, she started her popular food blog The Foodie Physician where she uses her medical and culinary backgrounds to help readers create meals that are nutritious and full of flavor. In addition to practicing medicine, Sonali also develops recipes and is a contributing writer for several national magazines, cookbooks, and websites. She recently moved to sunny Fort Lauderdale where she lives with her husband and daughter.

Jo Brielyn is the co-author of Combat Fat for Kids: The Complete Plan for Family Fitness, Nutrition, and Health. Jo is a contributing writer for Hatherleigh Press and has currently completed over 16 nonfiction books about health and wellness. She is a featured author in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels Among Us and has written numerous articles, short stories and poetry for online and print publications. Jo is the founder, writer and web editor of Creative Kids Ideas and serves as web editor and administrator for GetFitNow.com. A western New York native, Jo now resides in Central Florida with her family.