The
Pritikin diet is one of the most effective ways to turn off the gene expression that increases risk for cardiovascular disease.
While not entirely vegetarian, the
Pritikin diet includes primarily vegetables, fruits and whole grains and contains no more than 10 percent fat.
He developed the
Pritikin Diet Program based on cases he treated at the first Pritikin Longevity Center in 1976.
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft talk about their commitment to a
Pritikin diet low in animal fats, while Tina Brown advises American eaters to order half portions, as they provide more than adequate amounts of nutrition.
My Mum was into the
Pritikin Diet and we grew our own veggies.
"We've got to tell Americans to get off their rear ends and exercise," says UCLA researcher James Barnard, who has studied 4,500 people on the
Pritikin diet.
Robert Pritikin, author of The
Pritikin Diet, was the featured speaker at the Third European Club Leaders Conference in Heidelberg, Germany last August ...
So if you look at our statistics compared to the Pritikin statistics in response to an inresidence program, I will bet our statistics are equally good and in some cases better, yet we don't have that high triglyceride elevation because of that 80 percent complex carbohydrate they use in the basic
Pritikin diet. We try to give our people a program that they can live with from now on.
The
Pritikin diet is a 10% fat diet, with a high carbohydrate content from grain, beans and vegetables and limited protein.
Unfortunately, not until disease of some sort had affected them did they begin to search --as pointed out to me in the case histories documented by Nathan Pritikin in a book, Nathan
Pritikin Diet and Exercise.