	February 27, 2008 \| Issue 157
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Women's Health: Special Report

The first step in managing your health is knowing who your enemy is. The disease many women fear most is cancer, but the disease that kills more U.S. women than any other is heart disease.

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Of particular benefit (and joy) for hundreds of women worldwide has been Pritikin’s Women’s Health Weeks. They are one- and two-week programs that include several women-only events, including workshops clarifying all the latest science on women’s health as well as small, intimate workshops on healthy living, reclaiming your sexuality, and successful lifetime weight control.

The Women’s Health Weeks are also a wonderful opportunity to meet like-minded women and launch lifelong friendships. “What a transformation we all went through together!” says Cindy Grillet, a guest in Women’s Health Weeks. “It was amazing how quickly we all starting caring for each other, and how well we all did. I can’t wait to come back!”

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In fact, more women than men now die of heart disease each year. That’s right, heart attack is no longer just “a man’s disease.” Heart disease and related problems like Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and overweight are everyone’s diseases, including, most tragically, many of our children.

What’s the best way to take care of my heart?

Focus first on adopting a healthy lifestyle, recommend health organizations worldwide, including the American Heart Association (AHA).

In its guidelines for women, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association on February 20, 2007, the AHA urges women to:

Eat a diet rich in whole foods like fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes (beans and peas).
Eat seafood at least twice a week. Fatty fish like salmon, tuna and mackerel are emphasized because they contain heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids.
Cut down on saturated-fat-rich foods like red meat and full-fat dairy products like whole milk and cheese.
Stop smoking.
Exercise regularly. Women who need to lose weight should get 60 to 90 minutes of exercise per day rather than the 30 minutes typically advised for adults in general.

These AHA guidelines are essentially the same guidelines taught at the Pritikin Longevity Center. The results of the Pritikin Program for men and women, published in more than 110 studies in leading peer-reviewed journals over the past three decades, demonstrate just how powerfully – and quickly – lifestyle changes can benefit our health.

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In just three to four weeks, the Pritikin Program has been proven to markedly reduce all key risk factors for heart disease, including

Cholesterol: Analyses of 4,587 men and women staying at Pritikin for three weeks showed an average 23% drop in total cholesterol and 23% drop in LDL "bad" cholesterol. (New England Journal of Medicine, 323: 1142, 1990; Archives of Internal Medicine, 151: 1389, 1991. See also Circulation, 106: 2530, 2002.)

Triglycerides: These 4,587 Pritikin guests also reduced triglycerides on average 33%. (New England Journal of Medicine, 323: 1142 ,1990; Archives of Internal Medicine, 151: 1389, 1991.)

Hypertension: In a meta-analysis of 1,117 hypertensives, nearly 60% no longer required medications after leaving Pritikin. (Journal of Applied Physiology, 98: 3, 2005.)

Type 2 Diabetes: More than 21 million children and adults in the United States have Type 2 diabetes, a disease that greatly increases the risk of heart disease. A meta-analysis of 864 diabetics found that Type 2 diabetes can be arrested and reversed with the Pritikin Program. More than 74% of diabetics on oral agents left Pritikin free of such medications; and 44% on insulin left insulin-free. Those who continued the Pritikin Program stayed off the medications. (Journal of Applied Physiology, 98: 3, 2005. See also Diabetes Care, 17: 1469, 1994.)

Metabolic Syndrome: Having the Metabolic Syndrome, a condition now epidemic in the U.S., puts one at major risk for diabetes and heart disease. In about 50% of people studied, the syndrome was not only controlled but also reversed after just three weeks at the Pritikin Center. (Journal of Applied Physiology, 100: 1657, 2006.) Among children studied who had the Metabolic Syndrome, 100% reversed the syndrome within two weeks of adopting the Pritikin Program. (Metabolism Clinical and Experimental, 55: 871, 2006.)

Weight Loss: Pritikin guests in need of weight loss lose on average 10 pounds within three weeks of starting Pritikin. (Archives of Internal Medicine, 151: 1389, 1991.)

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