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October 18, 2006 | Issue 87 |
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"I'm going to be 80. I can't believe it because I feel 50!"
In the 1970s, doctors told Tom McMullen, 48 years old, father of six, and sales engineer poised to become company president, to just go home “and live life to its fullest. There’s nothing we can do for you,” his physicians counseled. “Your coronary arteries are severely clogged. You don’t have long to live.”
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“How shocking those words were for all of us,” recalls Tom’s wife Rosemary.
The kids, at the time in their teens and twenties, were devastated – but not ready to give up. Soon after, daughter Terri told her parents she’d seen a 60 Minutes segment about heart patients who were doing miraculously well with a diet-and-exercise plan at a longevity center in California run by a man named Nathan Pritikin.
Nathan Pritikin
Tom and Rosemary, then living in New Castle, Indiana, flew out and stayed at Nathan Pritikin’s Longevity Center for a month, walking every day along the Pacific, attending lectures given by Nathan Pritikin, eating the Pritikin diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and totally revamping their lives.
“It was wonderful, and Tom thrived,” says Rosemary. “Nathan told us he wished he had gotten to Tom sooner – before Tom’s arteries had gotten so bad – but Nathan was hopeful that the diet and exercise therapy could arrest the plaque growth, and maybe even partially reverse it.”
A Family Affair
The couple returned home, launched themselves into Pritikin living in New Castle, and got all their children going on Pritikin, too.
Tom lived another vital, vibrant 20 years. ”We were so blessed,” says Rosemary. “Every Christmas, I wrote to Nathan and Ilene, thanking them for my husband’s life. We felt so lucky to have found Pritikin and to have had all those years of joy with each other, and with our children and grandchildren.”
Diabetes
And every day since that first trip to the Pritikin Longevity Center in 1979, Rosemary herself has thrived on Pritikin, determined to control a strong family tendency to developing Type 2 diabetes.
“After my last baby, Tim, was born, the doctors ran glucose tolerance tests on me and said, ‘Ooooh, you’re going to be diabetic, and you’re going to need insulin shots.’
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