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.
Reception
The diet is based around low-fat, high-fibre food and limiting red meat, alcohol, and processed food.
When it was launched, the diet was considered radical, but its precepts are now considered largely in alignment with mainstream nutritional advice.
[ The Pritikin Diet has been categorized as a ]fad diet
A fad diet is a diet that becomes popular for a short time, similar to fads in fashion, without being a standard dietary recommendation, and often making unreasonable claims for fast weight loss or health improvements. There is no single defi ...
with possible disadvantages including a boring food choice, flatulence, and the risk of feeling too hungry.[Alpers, David H; Stenson, William F. Bier, Dennis M. (1995). ''Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics''. Third Edition. Little, Brown and Company. p. 495]
See also
* List of diets
An individual's diet is the sum of food and drink that one habitually consumes. Dieting is the practice of attempting to achieve or maintain a certain weight through diet. People's dietary choices are often affected by a variety of factors, incl ...
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