Photo of Ruth M. Leverton, author of Food Becomes You, or, Better Health Through Better Nutrition.

The author of Food Becomes You, or, Better Health through Better Nutrition, Ruth M. Leverton, has many qualifications when it comes to writing a nutritional cookbook. At the time that this book was written, Leverton was the associate director of the institute of home economics within the United States Department of agriculture. Going into her education, Leverton had a doctorate in nutrition from the University of Chicago, as well as being a Fulbright professor of nutrition in the Philippines and lectured in further countries while associated with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Furthermore, in 1957 Leverton was a member of the United States delegation to the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization conference on nutrition problems within Latin American Countries. Leverton also wrote two further cookbooks, being Your Diabetes and How to Live with It and A Girl and Her Figure.