Invest in the Health of Your Bottom Line!
 The Pritikin Longevity Center® & Spa offers all the amenities of a premier resort – plus so much more. CEOs worldwide agree that Pritikin® Retreats are one of the best investments they have ever made. Their employees return to work inspired, revitalized with significantly improved health, and greater productivity.
Why Will a Pritikin® Corporate Retreat Improve Your Bottom Line?
Never before have Pritikin Retreats been more essential. American industries lose $32 billion and 132 million workdays every year because of employees’ illnesses and premature deaths related to heart disease (high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, obesity), the New York Times recently reported. The annual medical costs for overweight/obese employees are five times that of normal-weight employees.(1) Billions more are lost due to poor productivity, or presenteeism (workers being on the job but, because of medical conditions, not fully functioning).
Consistently, studies have found that companies who institute health and fitness programs like the Pritikin Program achieve dramatic returns:
- In a review of 19 studies on employee health, scientists concluded that each dollar invested in health promotion programs nets a return of $3 to $6 over a two- to five-year period.(2) “No other disease has a greater impact on the health of the workforce and its bottom line than cardiovascular disease,” concluded lead author Dyann Koffman, M.D., of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- After just one year of adopting health/fitness habits, employees cut their average number of sick days in half.(3)
- Reducing just one health risk, such as high cholesterol, from involvement in corporate wellness programs boosts productivity by 9%.(4)
Concluded leading health economist Marc L. Berger of the University of Pennsylvania in a review outlining the benefits of corporate health programs: “Employers who increase their investments in healthy human capital now will emerge tomorrow as the companies leading the gains in U.S. productivity.”(5)
Now that’s a sound investment!
The Price of a Pritikin Corporate Retreat – a Pleasant Surprise.
A Pritikin Corporate Retreat is in the same price range as those at other resorts. It’s the value that is extraordinary! Both your bottom line and the health of your employees receive a huge boost--a benefit unparalleled anywhere else.
Pritikin Retreats Are Customized to Suit Your Business Needs
In addition to your regular business agenda, you can choose to benefit from as much of the Pritikin® Program as suits your needs. Experience a custom-designed program for your business, including:
 Executive physicals, screenings, and consultations with our board-certified physicians- Interactive workshops with our acclaimed physicians and nutritionists
- One-on-one fitness training from world-class exercise physiologists
- Deliciously healthy, high-energy meals and snacks throughout the day
The Results of the Pritikin® Program Speak for Themselves!
Over the past three decades, more than 100 studies in key medical journals like the New England Journal of Medicine have documented the extraordinary results of the Pritikin Program. Research has shown that the Pritikin Program:
- Reduces cholesterol significantly — allowing many to throw away cholesterol-lowering drugs
- Lowers blood pressure — More than 80% of guests studied left free of all hypertension medications
- Reverses/Controls the effects of diabetes — In a study of 652 diabetics, 70% on oral agents left free of these medications; 39% on insulin left insulin-free
- Relieves angina pain — and for many eliminates the need for heart surgery
- Reduces key risk factors for breast, colon, and prostate cancer – a 2003 UCLA study showed that the Pritikin Program induces prostate cancer cells to die
- Promotes permanent weight loss — significant and lasting weight reduction
The Pritikin® Retreat - Unsurpassed Facilities and Location
You can have it all:
- Luxurious hotel rooms and first-class accommodations set in a South Florida tropical paradise – a private waterfront enclave within the Turnberry Isle Resort
- Meeting space, including complete audiovisual and videoconferencing
- State-of-the-art fitness center with classes taught by our expert exercise staff, including treadmill, Pilates, weight training, yoga, and relaxation
- Head-to-toe pampering at our Spa, offering steam and dry saunas, a full array of massage techniques, herbal wraps, facials, manicures, pedicures, and hair styling
- All Turnberry Resort amenities, including day and night tennis, championship golf, private beach club, water sports and boat/fishing charters
Both CEO’s and Their Employees Rave About the Pritikin Program!
After all, who isn’t interested in feeling better and living longer? Pritikin Retreats offer your entire team the most important gift of all — the life-changing awareness of how healthful foods and everyday fitness can lead to a happy, productive, healthy life.
“The Pritikin Corporate Retreat is a home run experience for the health of your employees – and the health of your business! Pritikin crafted a customized program that gave us plenty of time for our Darden projects. Within that framework, they also gave us all the highlights of the Pritikin Program – eye-opening lectures, fabulous meals, and superb training from the exercise staff. We had it all. On a scale of 1 to 10, our corporate retreat at the Pritikin Longevity Center was a 10+"
Blaine Sweatt
Executive Vice-President, Darden Restaurants;
Owner of Red Lobster and Olive Garden
“We sent 21 pilots who were grounded because of heart disease, diabetes or hypertension to Pritikin. Three months later, 18 were back flying again.”
Harvey Watt
President, , Harvey Watt and Co.,
Aviation Insurance Atlanta, Georgia
“Pritikin is an ideal place to hold a corporate retreat. The program offers preventive maintenance of your most important assets – your human resources. To maximize your employees’ health, productivity and longevity, Pritikin is by far the best investment you could ever make.”
Bob Small, (ret.)
Executive Vice-President, Walt Disney Resort Attractions, Worldwide
President and CEO, Fairmont Hotels
“I always look forward to coming back to Pritikin and I’ve sent many of my executives to the resort. Personally I have lost 20 pounds, reduced my cholesterol, and lowered my blood pressure.”
David Anderson
Famous Dave’s of America, 80 restaurants nationwide
"Our members are all young and in good health. Pritikin gave us the education to continue on a healthy path. And just in time! I came to Pritikin with poor eating habits. What a difference a few days at Pritikin made! All of us gained knowledge that has changed our lives forever."
Michelle Trulaske
Young Presidents Organization Forum
"Important Message to CEO's - one of the best ways to stay on top personally and to have your company succeed is to send your executives and have your corporate retreats at Pritikin. The benefits of the Pritikin Program will amaze you."
Don Nickelson (ret.)
President, Paine Webber Group, Inc.
1. American Journal of Health Behavior, 2003; 27 (4): 456.
2. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2005; Vol. 29, Issue 5 (Supplement 1): 113.
3. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1997; 39: 827.
4. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2004; 46 (7): 746.
5. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2003; 45 (12): 1213
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