Bernhoff Dahl

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Bernhoff Dahl
Bernhoff Dahl

Bernhoff Dahl is a motivational speaker and author who lives in Winterport, Maine. He was born in Hackensack, New Jersey November 3, 1938 the son of a Norwegian whaler. Although he was interested in too many subjects he finally settled on a degree in chemistry and a minor in Bible at Wheaton College (Illinois). He went on to earn an MD from Cornell University, and completed an internship and residency in pathology at the University of Vermont. After serving as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, he was chosen as the chief of pathology at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine, where he cofounded Dahl-Chase Pathology Associates. Then after twenty-five years of "in the trenches" group medical practice and consulting, he took early retirement at the age of fifty-seven (1995).

Dahl's 1982 The Pig-Out Diet Book, co-authored David Fingard and published by the Bacon Printing Co., sold 16,000 copies. The book advocated a diet in which its practitioners would skip breakfast and lunch, and then "pig out" at dinner.[1]

In 1990, Dahl founded "Hikers Against Doo Doo", an international organization dedicated to keeping human and animal excrement off of mountain paths around the world. The group claimed 1,000 members as of 1994, and attracted 19 people to its 1993 International Congress in Moscow.[2][3]

In 1999, Dahl was found covered in snow and ice on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, "lucky to be alive" in dangerous circumstances.[4] Following the incident, "in interviews with the press, Dahl attributed his misadventure to stupidity".[5] He is currently working on his latest book, What Better Place to Die an account of his near-death experience on Mount Washington.

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  1. ^ Demarest, Michael. "Getting High on the Hog", Time (magazine), May 24, 1982. Accessed January 5, 2008.
  2. ^ "SUNDAY, December 11, 1994; Scat, Scat!", The New York Times, December 11, 1994. Accessed January 5, 2008.
  3. ^ "DOO DOO Do's and Don'ts When you're not in city, leaving behind natural calling card is no display of class", The Gazette (Colorado Springs), April 29, 1999. Accessed January 5, 2008.
  4. ^ via Associated Press. "RESCUERS RISK LIVES TO SAVE LOST HIKER", Portland Press Herald, October 25, 1999. Accessed January 5, 2008.
  5. ^ Daniell, Gene. Appalachia, Magazine Number 211 (2000 Dec 15), Appalachian Mountain Club.

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