Pritikin diet explained

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.^[3] When it was launched, the diet was considered radical, but its precepts are now considered largely in alignment with mainstream nutritional advice.^[3] The Pritikin Diet has been categorized as a 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

• List of diets

Notes and References

1. News: The New York Times. Nathan Pritikin, whose diet many used against heart ills. Robert D.. McFadden. 23 February 1985.
2. The Pritikin program: Claims vs. facts . 1982 . Consumer Reports . 47 . 10 . 513–518.
3. Web site: WebMD . Pritikin Diet . Camille Noe Pagan . 22 January 2017 .
4. Book: Alters S, Schiff W. Essential Concepts for Healthy Living . Chapter 10: Body Weight and Its Management. 22 February 2012 . Jones & Bartlett Publishers . 978-1-4496-3062-1 . 327 . Sixth .
5. Alpers, David H; Stenson, William F. Bier, Dennis M. (1995). Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics. Third Edition. Little, Brown and Company. p. 495