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The nutritional focus of the Pritikin Program is not elements like carbs or fat. Our focus is food, healthy food like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and seafood. Nothing we recommend is extreme, except that our recommendations are extremely healthy.
The doctors, scientists, and registered dietitians of the Pritikin Longevity Center base their nutrition recommendations for the Pritikin Program on a huge body of research showing that our health improves quickly and dramatically when we eat the foods our bodies are biologically designed to eat.
The fact is, our 21st century diet, high in salt, sugar, and saturated-fat-rich foods like cheeseburgers and fries, is killing us because it's so drastically different from the food our ancestors ate for hundreds of thousands of years.
Our ancestors' diets consisted of a lot of very high-in-fiber vegetables and fruits, some nuts, and for most, some seafood and/or very lean meat. This is the diet our human digestive systems evolved on. This is the diet we're designed to eat.
Since our 21st century diet is very new in evolutionary terms, just 100 years old, our bodies haven't had any chance to adapt to it. What we have, then, is a mismatch between what we ate as we evolved and the food we eat now, and the sad result is many of our modern health problems, including dangerously high blood pressure, soaring blood sugar levels, high cholesterol, and heart attacks.
But we also have the ability to get well real fast, as numerous studies on the Pritikin Program have shown. That's the gift of feeding your body the right fuel.
