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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Nathan Pritikin has last word!
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Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 14:56:26 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 14 14:56:26 1985
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	Nathan Pritikin, the self-taught diet guru who argued for years with
the medical establishment about the value of his stringent diet-and-exercise
program, has managed to have the last word after his death.
	Pritikin commited suicide last February after a 27-year struggle
with Leukemia.  His heart was autopsied for signs of heart disease, but as
reported in a recent New England Journal of Medicine, there were none.
	"In a man 69 years old, the near absence of atherosclerosis and the
complete absence of its effects are remarkable," they write.

	[I know the Pritikin diet was very low in fat. Aside from that, I know
very little of the specifics. If someone in the know would like to fill me 
(and the net) in, it would be appreciated.]

-- 
				Craig Werner
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"