Fasting Diet
Resources for This Diet
International Association of Professional Hygienists
4620 Euclid Boulevard
Youngstown, OH 44512
(A professional organization of doctors who specialize in therapeutic fasting. Write to them for a list of certified members.)
Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program for Conquering Disease, by Joel Fuhrman, MD, New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998.
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