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Pritikin Diet

Summary

This is a low-fat, high-fiber diet designed to reduce the risk of heart disease. Exercise is also a main component.

Description

This is mostly a vegetarian diet. Fats are kept to a 10% of overall intake. You are encouraged to eat 6-7 meals per day. Processed grains are also excluded. You are required to walk 45 minutes per day.

From the back-cover of "The Pritikin Weight Loss Breakthrough":

By understanding our genetic "fat instinct," he explains, we can outsmart it -- balance our diets and slimming our bodies successfully. The exciting new discovery makes weight loss easier than ever, with a more workable approach for today's lifestyle and new food choices for a diet experience that's about satisfaction, not deprivation. This book includes:

A proven plan to shed pounds--without hunger and withou drugs

The real story on carbohydrates

Tips on outsmarting the fat instinct by altering behaviors

Helpful advice on resisting unhealthy foods

60 delicious new recipes and more

History

Nathan Pritikin started the Pritikin Program after he was diagnosed with heart disease at a young age. In the 1970s the founded Pritikin Longevity Centers and the Pritikin Research Foundation.

Criticism

Many people have trouble staying on low-fat diets because low-fat foods tend to not provide a feeling of satisfaction.

25-Oct-2005 1:09pm created by bill
4-Sep-2006 2:31pm last update by bill

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