About the Author

Lorna R. Vanderhaeghe is a health journalist who has been researching and writing on the subject of nutritional medicine for over fifteen years. She is Editor-in-Chief of Healthy Living Guide magazine and Alive magazine, and Senior Editor for the Encyclopedia of Natural Healing, a book that recently won the Benjamin Franklin Award. Patrick J D Bouic, PhD., is a leading immunologist at Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. For more than a decade, Professor Bouic has been researching the effects of sterols and sterolins on human health.