Pritikin Diet

Dr. Nathan Pritikin launched his crusade to help people change their lifestyles in 1976, founding the Pritikin Longevity Center. The Center is based on the principle that changing your lifestyle can make you a healthier person and give you a longer, more fulfilling life. Pritikin’s initial program was designed to help people lower cholesterol and control diabetes without as much dependence on insulin. He used dietary rules, exercise, and stress management to make these changes, which in turn also helped people lose weight. People still flock to the Longevity Center each year to make a change in their lifestyles, paying upwards of $3,500 for a week of classes, exercise, dietary coaching, and medical consultations.

The “Pritikin Diet” relies heavily on low-fat choices, as fat in the diet is strictly limited to ten percent of daily calories. It is not a vegetarian diet; however, it emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Lean meats are preferred, since fattier cuts would put one over the 10% daily restriction. Eggs, pasta, white bread, processed foods, and caffeine are not allowed, for example. The recommendations have been slightly revised by Pritkin’s son Robert in a 2000 book, The Pritikin Principle. In this book, Robert goes beyond the basic concepts and relies on the idea of “calorie density.” “Calorie dense” foods take very little food to give you a lot of calories. For example, carrots are not calorie dense, at 35 calories a cup. However, 8 oz. of milk chocolate has almost 1200 calories! Robert says that by choosing foods that are not calorie dense, we can make sensible choices and feel satisfied, and achieve weight loss.

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