Disease Prevention
The Pritikin Program is all about laying the foundation for a lifetime of good health and disease prevention. You’ll lose weight without feeling hungry, regain your vitality, and feel healthier, stronger. You’ll live better. Now’s your chance.
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Foods That Promote Liver Health
Preventing and Controlling Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease ... -
Why you might not be getting enough Vitamin D
1. What is Vitamin D? Vitamin D is a pro-hormone. For it to become useful, after getting exposure to ... -
What Should I Eat?
Eating lots of nourishing foods can make the body feel energized, vibrant, and rejuvenated. But you already knew that. Despite ... -
6 Lifestyle Change Commitments You Can Actually Maintain
The Biggest Thing Holding You Back from Being Healthy When your doctor says you should make some healthy changes to ... -
Is it Safe to Fly?
Let’s check in with university researchers and airline experts to discover if it is safe to fly. Traveling by ... -
How to Get Quick Health Results
From Oprah Winfrey and Stedman to Jenny and Forest Gump, sometimes two great things are even better when together. According ... -
What’s the Fastest Way to Get Healthy?
Experts agree the fastest way to get healthy doesn’t have to be difficult or come in a fancy packaged ... -
Belly Fat Increases Your Risk for COVID-19 ICU Admission |
What You Can Do About ItBelly fat may increase your risk of severe complications from Covid-19. Learn why and get four tips for losing ... -
Can You Get Sick from the Gym?
How to Avoid Germs at the GymSweat dripping off handle bars of the treadmill can make you stop and wonder, are there germs at the gym ... -
4 Tips to Boost Your Immune System Naturally from Nutrition Experts
Does vitamin C work to prevent a cold or flu? What nutrition experts and immunology scientists have found may surprise ... -
Can You Use Food As Medicine?
You know that eating healthy is good for you. But, is it possible that you can use food as medicine ... -
Medicine Safety: A Toolkit for Families
When you have several members of the family taking various medications, it’s important to know who is taking ... -
Drug Side Effects Vs Pritikin Side Effects
For too long, patients as well as doctors have fallen prey to the medical mystique of a pill for every ... -
Are You Still Dealing with Last Year’s Health Issues?
Struggling with Pain Ouch! Back pain or shoulder impingement (joint pain) really reduces your ability to enjoy life. Pain not ... -
What Your Doctor Is Not Telling You
Doctors are an undeniably helpful resource for your health. However, what your doctor is not telling you could be the ... -
Taking Too Many Medications?
Am I taking too many medications? You may not even remember how it got to this point. The pile of ... -
Can You Be Overweight But Fit?
Can You Be Overweight But Fit? No, according to research1 that followed 5,005 American men and women for more ... -
Foods That Fight Depression
The more we rely on food as our “medicine,” the less we need actual medicine. That may be especially important ... -
Is acrylamide bad for you?
In the United States, fried potato products like French fries and potato chips are the greatest source of acrylamide in ... -
“If I have a good calcium score, do I need any other testing for my heart?”
Newer, softer plaques (the ones you don’t see on CT scans) are likely more worrisome than calcified plaques. That ... -
Health Concerns of the Elderly to Lead to a Long Life
However, in order to live longer, the elderly need to be aware of potential health issues that they may face ... -
Knee Pain | Causes, Treatment & Relief
InfographicYou really want to start exercising and shed some weight, but every time you set out for a walk, it ... -
No More Acid Reflux and Sleep Apnea.
And 50 Pounds Lighter.Sometimes, it’s the little things that get you down when your weight’s up. Like cutting your toenails. “It ... -
Statins, Diabetes, Diet, and the “Tony Roma” Effect
“Pills are merely a band aid,” points out Kimberly Gomer, Director of Nutrition at the Pritikin Center. “A ... -
Video: How Not To Die
| Dr. Michael Greger M.D. at Pritikin"> Video: How Not To Die
| Dr. Michael Greger M.D. at PritikinThis short 4-minute video contains highlights from Dr. Greger’s lecture at Pritikin. To watch the full one ... -
Foods That Promote Kidney Health
Chronic kidney disease often leads to kidney failure, dialysis, and kidney transplants. Roughly 1 of every 10 Americans has it ... -
Can you be both overweight and healthy?
A study that got widespread media coverage in 2013 essentially told America, “It’s okay to be fat ... -
Sun Protection Tips for Healthy Skin
It is important to protect your skin from the potential harmful side effects of sun exposure. Follow these tips to ... -
How To Build Strong Bones Naturally
“The osteoporosis problem in America is related to several factors, including our overconsumption of salt, soft drinks, caffeine, refined ... -
Diabetes and Alzheimer’s | The Deadly Link
There’s very hopeful news, reports Dr. Melissa Schilling of New York University, author of a comprehensive new review implicating ... -
Getting Healthy Again, Quickly
A growing body of research is finding that for many people, getting healthy again does not require a medicine cabinet ... -
Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion
Chronic Diseases: Leading Causes of Death and Disability It might surprise you to know that seven out of ten deaths ... -
The Dangers of Salt:
It’s More Than Just a Blood Pressure ProblemIn a recent comprehensive review in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the authors concluded that even in ... -
Foods That Promote Sexual Health
Foods that improve sexual health are essentially the same foods that improve heart health, science is learning. That’s ... -
How To Exercise Without Pain
In a television interview, sports injury and orthopedic specialist Frank Musumeci discusses several exercise options that put less stress on ... -
Does Anger Hurt Your Body?
Recently published research has found that intense anger increases the risk of suffering a heart attack 8-fold, and intense ... -
Foods That Promote Lung Health
For decades, the Pritikin Eating Plan has been documented in peer-reviewed research to reduce the likelihood of heart disease ... -
Will Obesity Kill You?
New research has found that seriously obese people may reduce their life expectancy by up to 8 years. What’s ... -
What is reverse causation?
Reverse causation (also called reverse causality) refers either to a direction of cause-and-effect contrary to a common presumption ... -
The Acid Reflux Diet
GERD That’s because acid reflux can become a serious, chronic condition called gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD. GERD ... -
How To Live To 100 | 6 Top Foods
All longevity “hot spots” have many of the same basic characteristics. Their diets are plant-based. They tend ... -
Foods that Heal. Foods That Kill.
Grand Slams for breakfast, cheeseburgers at lunch, pizza for dinner. We all know it’s lousy stuff, but a lot ... -
“It’s Not Just the Years In Your Life…”
“Pritikin is an investment in what matters most – a longer life, a better life,” sums up Pritikin’s ... -
Foods That Promote Eye Health
Are there foods that promote eye health? Yes, and that’s a surprise for many people. We often think of ... -
Embracing a Healthier Lifestyle At Age 20 Can Mean Major Benefits For the Heart At Age 40
The scientists, from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, focused on five key lifestyle factors: Not smoking Not being ... -
What are free radicals?
What are free radicals? Free radicals are atoms or molecules with an odd (unpaired) number of electrons. They can be ... -
Do I need calcium supplements?
In the medicine cabinets of homes nationwide are bottles of calcium pills. They’re as ubiquitous as toothpaste. But do ... -
Staying Healthy During Flu Season
It can lead to serious illness such as pneumonia, and in some people, it may even cause death. Even if ... -
Lower Stress to Lower Weight with Tips from Pritikin
When a person is under stress, hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline are released by the nervous system. As a ... -
The Typical American Diet Is Our Biggest Enemy
The largest study in more than 15 years of U.S. health, disease, and death was recently published. Titled “ ... -
Fountain of Youth Discovered in a Bean Garden
Want to live until you’re 100? Imagine doing so without heart disease or other illnesses associated with aging ... -
Living Longer – 4 Lifestyle Factors Cut Death Risk 80%
Want to give one big boost to your health and longevity? Follow these 4 lifestyle measures, says an important new ... -
The Real Fountain of Youth
Imagine living heart-disease-free – and fully, actively, and vigorously – well into our 70s, 80s, and beyond. The authors of ... -
How To Live a Longer Life: Get Up, Stand Up!
For a longer, better life, your morning workout sure does count. But did you know that simply getting up out ... -
Personality Secrets For Living To 100
Spend a day with 80-year-old Battista Locatelli (though you’ll probably have one helluva time keeping up with ... -
10 Secrets To Success In Health and Wealth
Below are Investors Business Daily’s 10 Secrets of Success, but with a lifestyle-change slant. They can help you ... -
U.S. Companies Can Save Billions By Launching Wellness Programs
Nearly 30% of companies’ medical costs go to heart-related problems like obesity and high blood pressure. New research found ... -
Exercise and Diet Can Help Control NAFLD (Fatty Liver)
More and more research is finding that we can substantially reduce our risk of fatty liver disease by eating a ... -
What Can the Pritikin Program Do For Me?
If you’re looking for the healthiest – and happiest – way to live your life, you’ve found it with the ... -
The Dirty Dozen: Top 12 Lifestyle Risk Factors
An important new study* has found that the biggest premature killer of Americans is not big bad things like acts ... -
Medical Minimalism
Recently, a guest at Pritikin, a businessman from Los Angeles, walked into his first medical appointment at the Pritikin Longevity ... -
9 Wellness Tests For ’09
There are several tests your mechanic runs your car through every 3,000 miles, and you rarely forget to bring ... -
A Longer & Better Life
Don’t smoke. Don’t become obese or diabetic. Keep your blood pressure under control. And exercise regularly, about two ... -
Wellness
In 2003, the world’s top experts in weight control and optimal health published a 116-page World Health ... -
Do I Really Need All These Pills?
Two years ago, Ron Gerhart, in his late 50s and newly retired from the world of advertising, was taking prescription ... -
The Latest Science On Anti-Aging
Hormone shots. Anti-wrinkle potions. Herbal “miracles.” Yes, the business of anti-aging is booming. But, warn health officials nationwide ... -
8 Medical Tests You Need This Year
Americans are living longer than ever. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, life expectancy is 77.6 years ... -
Corporate Health: Your Bottom Line
American industries lose billions every year because of employees’ illnesses and premature deaths related to heart disease (high blood pressure ... -
10 Scientifically-Proven Tips For a Healthier, Leaner Life
Here are 10 tips that can help improve your health and whittle down your waistline – and none of them comes ... -
The Shape of Things To Come
In the largest study of its kind ever published, researchers concluded that obese children face a significantly higher risk of ... -
Get Back Seven Years of Your Life
YOU KNOW BILL. At 58 years old, a strapping six feet two inches tall and 220 pounds with a full ... -
Live Longer, Live Better: 10 Secrets to Success
For more than 30 years, the Pritikin Longevity Center® has been honored to count among its Alumni some of the ... -
Anger Management | 9 Key Steps
There’s much we can do to minimize anger and, in doing so, calm both body and mind. “ ... -
A Quick Fix After All?
Is the Pritikin Program a quick fix? Yes, asserted medical experts in an editorial on a new study that tracked ... -
Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia With Heart-Healthy Living
High levels of bad cholesterol such as LDL have for several years been recognized as a risk factor for the ... -
The Top 10 Things You Can Do To Prevent Cancer
It’s easy to get blown about in the gust of the latest “NEWS FLASH” study. One ... -
What Are Foodborne Pathogens?
There are many foodborne pathogens. This article describes the 10 most common ones. By learning what these pathogens are, what ... -
Diabetes and Gum Disease from pritikin.com
If your diabetes remains in control, your chances of developing periodontal disease will decrease as long as you stick to ...