Richard Ruhling

When I was 5 years old, I told my dad that I wanted to be what he was, but why wasn't he a fireman? He laughed and took me on some house calls and I could see people's appreciation for his help, so I decided that being a doctor was ok.

In college, I was chosen to spend a summer in Colombia and Venezuela, and I wanted to be a missionary, but the didn't work out and I was invited by the dean to take Internal Medicine and to teach.

While teaching, I attended a cardiology convention and heard Pritikin tell how his diet got most people off their drugs for diabetes and high blood pressure. It was the beginning of realizing food can be our medicine if we eat wisely. Medical literature shows that drugs are the leading cause of illness and death, but the media and doesn't report it because they like the drug ad money.

People like the health information in my books like "Health, Happiness & Destiny." Top 100 Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer, Grady Harp, MD, gave it 5-stars. The health info is also in my latest book, From Lockdown to Knockdown, The Fall of America & New World Order.