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   The Health Revolution was first published in 1980. The inspiration to write it stemmed from my experience of meeting Nathan Pritikin in 1976 and observing first-hand the miracles his program was achieving in returning people with advanced heart disease back to sound health again. My own wife, pronounced by specialists to be beyond medical help and in a dying condition, was one of them.

   The first edition contained 282 pages, and the dietary advice in it was Pritikin, right down the line. Pritikin claimed his diet to be the best in the world and I believed him. just to read the 893 case histories of Pritikin's first patients reviewed by the Loma Linda University in 1978 would convince anybody of that.

   However, as time went by, it became evident that there were serious pitfalls in Pritikin's dietary methods because, along with the benefits the methods achieved, there were upsets in blood chemistry that in many cases led to arthritis, and in other cases, subsequently, to cancer.

   Following editions of The Health Revolution revealed these dangers, and as my knowledge increased, so the size of the book increased by over one hundred pages. And specifically for the benefit of the, by now, many Pritikin devotees, I produced a new book called Improving on Pritikin.

   Further books followed to enlarge upon aspects and issues deserving more attention to that provided in The Health Revolution (already daunting enough in size) and these are Health & Survival in the 21 st Century (1992) and Cancerproof Your Body (1996).

   All of these books have been best sellers, and although The Health Revolution has been out of print for years, there is still such a strong demand for it that HarperCollins have gone ahead and brought out this fifth edition. And because Cancerproof Your Body has been so successful, they are going ahead with a reprint of Health & Survival in the 21st Century as well.

   This fifth edition of The Health Revolution is essentially the same as the fourth except for some fairly minor changes. What was true in 1985 is true today and will always be true. Sound health is your God-given birthright. If you have it, don't lose it. If you have already lost it--then get it back. Anything is easy when you know how. These books tell you how.

   Happy Landings
   Ross Home
   1997