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August 9, 2006 | Issue 77 |
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The Pritikin Program: "A Quick Fix After All?"
Yes, asserted medical experts in an editorial on a new study that tracked the remarkable results, after just three weeks, at the Pritikin Longevity Center®. Both study and editorial appeared in the May 2006 issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology.
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Past studies have proven the benefits of diet and exercise in reducing risk factors for epidemic illnesses like heart disease and diabetes. But most showed benefits “after many months to years,” stated the editorial’s authors: Frank W. Booth, MD, of the University of Missouri-Columbia and Manu V. Chakravarthy, MD, of the Washington University School of Medicine. In a “quick fix” culture like America, long-term options like these just don’t cut it.
“…provocative”
That’s why this new study by UCLA scientists on men following the diet-and-exercise program at the Pritikin Longevity Center – and the fast and profound results they achieved – is so “provocative,” pointed out Drs. Booth and Chakravarthy, in their editorial entitled “Physical Activity and Dietary Intervention For Chronic Diseases: A Quick Fix After All?”
“…phenomenal clinical response”
“Just three weeks of treatment,” the authors announced, “showed a phenomenal clinical response of about a 50% decrease in metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes.”
More Effective Than Drugs
What makes this study even more remarkable, they added, is that it presents a whole new alternative to pharmaceutical-focused America. In fact, the Pritikin Program appears more effective – and faster-acting – that any drug currently on the market.
“To our knowledge, no current pharmaceutical product has made a claim in a peer-reviewed publication for an approximate halving the metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes in three weeks,” writes Dr. Booth, from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Dr. Chakravarthy, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Washington University School of Medicine.
“…miracle treatment”
It is important to emphasize the details of this “miracle treatment,” the authors continued. In contrast to fad diets like low-carbohydrate Atkins and South Beach diets, the Pritikin diet is...
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