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You may read our selection of articles written by TrueNorth Health staff below. 

Resolving Corruption

Resolving Corruption: How to “Reboot” Your Brain so that Healthy Eating is Preferred By Alan Goldhamer, D.C. and Jennifer Marano, D.C. Reprinted from Health Science magazine, Spring 2012 Adopting a health-promoting diet in the modern world is among the most difficult challenges facing humans living in industrialized societies. … read more

What to Eat!

By Alan Goldhamer, D.C. and Jennifer Marano, D.C. Reprinted from Health Science magazine, Fall 2012   When readers of Health Science are asked, “What should I eat,” the first thing that probably springs to mind is to recommend a vegan, meaning plant-based, diet. But just recommending a vegan diet is not enough. The average… read more

Please Help Us Learn About Fasting and Vegan Diet

Bastyr University & TrueNorth Health   “Fasting and Alternatives to Standard Therapeutics (FAST): Determining the Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms Responsible for Adult Hypertension and Obesity”   Please Help Us Learn About Fasting and Vegan Diet   Is medically supervised water-only fasting an effective treatment for High… read more

President Bill Clinton's Dietary Transformation

This past Sunday, Sanjay Gupta of CNN interviewed former President Bill Clinton about his switch to a vegan diet. Read more about Mr. Clinton's transformation here.

Success on a Plant-Based SOS-free Diet

Dr. Alan Goldhamer talks about the basics of health in this interview with the cool vegetarian.

Fasting is the Answer, What is the Question?

This article originally appeared in Health Science Magazine. In the world of our ancient ancestors, fasting occurred primarily by force, not by choice.  Humans would fast when resources became scarce, such as when Spring came late. The ability of humans to fast was a biological necessity born from the disproportionate use of glucose by… read more

Meat Linked to Diabetes Risk

Type 2 Diabetes Associated with Increased Intake of Animal Foods. The effects of diet and lifestyle on health are notoriously difficult to ascertain. In order to begin to tease out patterns, researchers measure many variables in order to account for confounding variables (ie, factors that also correlate to the thing being studied). To further make… read more

Vegan Diets Linked to Reduced Cataract Risk

This week, I was planning to write about recent research that found a strong, positive correlation between a diet including animal proteins and type 2 diabetes.  The study "Low-carbohydrate diet scores and risk of type 2 diabetes in men" was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. As I was reading through the articles, though, I… read more

Vegetarian Diet May Reduce Risk of Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors associated with stroke, diabetes, coronary heart disease. One of the primary indicators of metabolic syndrome is extra weight around the waist. The indications of metabolic syndrome are any three of the following: blood presssure greater than 130/85 mmHG, fasting glucose greater than 100 mg/dL, large… read more

Study Suggests Routine Fasting May Affect Heart Health

Research by doctors and scientists at the Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, UT revealed metabolic changes during fasting that could be linked to better health. The most recent study confirmed their finding from an earlier study that was published in the October 2008 Journal of Cardiology. The original study found a correlation… read more