Herbert Schwinghammer (born 1952) has been working as a non-fiction author for more than 20 years. Among other things, he has written the bestseller "Knaur's new etiquette", which has been published as a revised and updated paperback by Mankau Verlag ("The new pocket etiquette"). He has also written numerous books on various conventional and alternative medical topics, such as "Fat killer artichokes", "Hormones that control life" and "Brain food - food that makes you intelligent". Herbert Schwinghammer was co-founder of the Munich health magazine TOPFIT.