The Pritikin Program

The Pritikin Program is praised by scientists worldwide as prevention proven to work.

Simple yet remarkable in its benefits, the Pritikin Program involves:

An eating plan based on natural whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, seafood, and limited lean meat;
Daily exercise, and
Lifestyle education that focuses on practical real-world training such as reading food labels and cooking healthfully and deliciously, as well as skills for stepping around stress and achieving an emotionally nourishing outlook.

At the Pritikin Longevity Center, guests also receive extensive medical evaluations from board-certified physicians, including treadmill stress testing, blood chemistry panels for cholesterol and other important biomarkers, and one-on-one consultations regarding personal health and weight-loss goals.

More than 110 studies published in top medical journals over the past 30 years have documented the Pritikin Program’s phenomenal success in helping thousands worldwide shed excess pounds, lower their cholesterol and blood pressure, prevent and even reverse epidemic diseases like heart disease and diabetes, and live happier, more balanced lives.

Proven Results

Based on more than 110 studies published in leading medical journals over the past 30 years, the Pritikin Program is arguably the healthiest lifestyle on earth. In health conferences worldwide, researchers at UCLA, Stanford, MIT, and Harvard have lauded Pritikin's remarkable results.

Best of all, people feel the benefits of the Pritikin Program almost immediately. Within two to three weeks, high cholesterol plummets. Hypertension disappears. Many diabetics no longer need their medications. Excess weight melts away. And energy levels soar.

Put simply, the Pritikin Program is true wellness. True wellness is not just the absence of known disease, but also the promise that you will remain well - vital and joyous - for some time to come.

The Pritikin Eating Plan

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.