Dr. Kevin Vigilante & Mary Flynn, Ph.D. Recipes by Master Chef Mary Melie Authors of Low- Fat Lies, High- Fat Frauds, and The Healthiest Diet in the World Click here to view details about Low-Fat Lies Recognized by Time magazine as one of America’s 50 outstanding leaders under age 40, Dr. Kevin Vigilante is a true activist, dedicating much of his time and medical talent to the medically under- served. He has cared for poor, minority women who suffer from drug addiction and the effects of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Having received his B.A. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Vigilante earned his Medical Degree from Cornell University in 1982, did his residency at Yale, and got his masters in Public Health at Harvard in 1991. Dr. Vigilante has directed much of his work to helping at-risk, inner-city women and children, including establishing RISE, a foundation that provides education in inner-city private and parochial middle schools to children of incarcerated women. Dr. Vigilante has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Rape Crisis Center of Rhode Island, helping to extend the Center’s services to sexually abused children. He also cares for HIV positive women and has launched an HIV prevention program for female prisoners at the Rhode Island State Prison. Dr. Vigilante’s humanitarian work has also extended past our country’s borders. In 1991 Dr. Vigilante traveled to Romania, at his own expense, to work with handicapped children in a Romanian orphanage. He has also conducted dangerous human rights investigations in the Sudan, where he documented the existence of a slave trade. He submitted testimony on his findings to the U.S. Congress and to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. Board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, Dr. Vigilante currently resides in Rhode Island, where he is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University. A lover of food, Dr. Vigilante continues to work with Christopher Martins, a well-known restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut, that he founded with his brother in the early 1980’s. Not just a favorite neighborhood landmark and pub, Christopher Martins has an ongoing outreach relationship with the local community in feeding the homeless and annually collecting toys for needy children at Christmas. Mary Flynn is a Ph.D. in nutrition who has done pioneering research on the failure of low fat diets and the negative effects of low fat diets on HDL and Triglycerides. She is a Brown University faculty member with an active clinical nutritional practice. Mary Melie, master chef at Christopher Martin's Restaurant, served as the culinary consultant and kitchen tester for this book.