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TrueNorth Health Education and Fasting Center has operated its residential
health education program in Penngrove, California
since 1984. Our program educates participants on the benefits of
healthy living and on the use of fasting as a tool to improve their diet
and lifestyle. Like a compass, we help our participants chart the
course toward optimum health. We call this direction TrueNorth.
TrueNorth Health
Education Center is affiliated with five doctors
of chiropractic and medicine who have been certified by the International
Association of Hygienic Physicians in fasting supervision. They have
extensive experience in the supervision of both short and extended
fasting. These doctors maintain offices adjacent to the Center and
are available during office hours to discuss the fasting program and
monitor your progress and health concerns.
Our goal is to create a
peaceful environment in which our participants can learn to make positive
changes to their diet and lifestyles.
We recognize that no
two people are exactly alike. The doctors can help you tailor our program
to meet your specific needs. Since 1984, more than 6,000 people have undergone
fasting and successfully completed our residential health education
program.
FASTING
— BACK TO THE FUTURE
The
Rediscovery of Water-Only Fasting
by Alan
Goldhamer, D.C.
Although
the notion of electing to go without food for prolonged periods of time to
improve one's health has not been something commonly considered in recent
times, fasting has a long and important history. In fact, fasting played a
vitally large part in early human survival. Fortunately, this ancient
knowledge is making a dramatic comeback and is beginning to transform the
way modern healthcare providers view their responsibilities to patients.
Human beings have the capability to survive extended periods of
fasting. This was certainly known in our hunter-gatherer days, since
many humans were forced to live through periods when little or no food was
available to them. However, since the advent of agriculture and
increasing technological advancement, modern humans have largely lost their
awareness of this powerful, innate capability.
For
example, the 1937 edition of The New Standard Encyclopedia stated that for
humans, “Generally death occurs after
eight days of deprivation of food.” By 1956, this grim pronouncement
inched somewhat closer to reality. That year’s edition of the
American Peoples Encyclopedia stated that survival time in men during
water-only fasting ranged from 17 to 76 days.
Read the rest of this
article - Fasting - Back to the Future
Other articles of interest:
Medically Supervised Water-Only
Fasting in the Treatment of Hypertension by Alan
Goldhamer, D.C.
Medically
Supervised Water-Only Fasting in the Treatment of Borderline Hypertension
by Alan
Goldhamer, D.C.
Fasting in the treatment of Diabetes and
High Blood Pressure by Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
Benefits of Fasting by
Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
Therapeutic Fasting by
Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
Fasting...the lost adaptation
by Douglas Lisle, Ph.D., and Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
A Fasting Article Not to Miss
Do You Need to Fast? by Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
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