Diet for Runners: The High-Performance Diet that Gives You Supercharged Energy and Endurance

by Nathan Pritikin

Pritikin's suggestions and advise for a performance enhancing diet for runners in particular and people in general.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1985

About the author

Nathan Pritikin was an American nutritionist and inventer. He attended the University of Chicago from 1933 to 1935, dropping out because of the Depression. He became an inventor and a millionaire developing patents for companies such as Honeywell and Bendix while living in Chicago and Santa Barbara, California.

After being diagnosed with heart disease in 1957 Pritikin began researching into the illness. He found that cultures with primarily vegetarian diets had almost no history with the disease. He used his inventive mind to create a plant-based diet that was high in unrefined carbohydrates and low in fat. With this diet and a moderate amount of exercise, he astonishingly cured his own heart disease. Afterward, he went on to share his expertise and success through his lectures, writing and clinics, helping others to cure their own diseases using the same method.

He established the Pritikin Longevity Center in 1976 and served as its director. Now called the Pritikin Longevity Center & Spa, it offers controlled diet, counselling in lifestyle change, and exercise in a resort/spa-type setting. Pritikin also served as chairman of the Pritikin Research Foundation.

He went on to inspire the likes of Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Michael Greger and many others.

Reviews

[Randi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was published in '85 and we found it at a used bookstore. What has caught my attention is the focus of this diet - lowering cholestrol and reversing heart disease - not weight loss. It's nice to hear someone talking about good health instead of weight loss (they are not one in the same). They claim, with scientific studies to back the claim, to lower cholestrol by 27% in 3-4 weeks. No one can touch that. However, it is a difficult diet to stay on, given how we all typically at today in the good 'ole US of A!