Pritikin diet
Template:Short description 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=cr>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Reception
The diet is based around low-fat, high-fibre food and limiting red meat, alcohol, and processed food.<ref name=wmd>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> When it was launched, the diet was considered radical, but its precepts are now considered largely in alignment with mainstream nutritional advice.<ref name=wmd/> The Pritikin Diet has been categorized as a fad diet with possible disadvantages including a boring food choice, flatulence, and the risk of feeling too hungry.<ref name=fad>Template:Cite book</ref>
Gastroenterologist David Hershel Alpers and colleagues described the Pritikin diet as "nutritionally adequate, but the low fat content makes it unpalatable, and the likelihood of compliance is low."<ref>Alpers, David H; Stenson, William F. Bier, Dennis M. (1995). Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics. Third Edition. Little, Brown and Company. p. 495</ref>