Pritikin diet

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The Pritikin diet is a low-fat, high-fibre diet which forms part of the "Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise", a lifestyle regimen originally created by Nathan Pritikin. The 1979 book describing the diet became a best-seller.[1][2]

Reception

The diet is based around low-fat, high-fibre food and limiting red meat, alcohol, and processed food.

fad diet with possible disadvantages including a boring food choice, flatulence, and the risk of feeling too hungry.[4]

Gastroenterologist David Hershel Alpers and colleagues described the Pritikin diet as "nutritionally adequate, but the low fat content makes it unpalatable, and the likelihood of compliance is low."[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ McFadden, Robert D. (23 February 1985). "Nathan Pritikin, whose diet many used against heart ills". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "The Pritikin program: Claims vs. facts". Consumer Reports. 47 (10): 513–518. 1982.
  3. ^ a b Camille Noe Pagan (22 January 2017). "Pritikin Diet". WebMD.
  4. ISBN 978-1-4496-3062-1. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help
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  5. ^ Alpers, David H; Stenson, William F. Bier, Dennis M. (1995). Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics. Third Edition. Little, Brown and Company. p. 495
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