Most guests begin to lose weight during their stay at the Pritikin Longevity Center. Research has documented that Pritikin guests in need of weight loss shed 12 pounds and more within three weeks of starting the Pritikin Program (Archives of Internal Medicine, 151:1389,1991) The majority achieve their most dramatic results in the months after they leave the resort. The plan consists of:

* Six nutritious, gourmet meals and snacks daily - unlimited servings

* Comprehensive Medical Health Evaluation and Fitness Assessment  by  Board-Certified Staff Physicians, including:

- Complete history and physical by your personal board-certified staff physician, including blood pressure screening, medication review, dietary analysis, and weight-loss planning

- Two 1-hour, personal consultations with your personal physician to closely track fitness, weight loss and health progress

- Cardiometabolic stress test

- Two state-of-the-art blood panels, including inflammatory markers,
comprehensive cholesterol analysis, and insulin and blood sugar sensitivity

- Personalized exercise prescription for use at Pritikin and at home

- Wrap-up of health and fitness status, including written report to share with home physician

- 7+ Education Classes, Small Group Workshops, and Personalized Counseling offered daily, all taught by world-class physicians, nutritionists, psychologists, and exercise physiologists. Topics include:

* Healthy restaurant dining (plus a trip to a restaurant)
* Simple strategies for Pritikin cooking at home
* Smart supermarket shopping (plus a trip to a supermarket)
* Individualized weight management
* Satisfy hunger while shedding weight
* Easy techniques for managing stress
* Reversing diabetes
* Revitalizing your heart
* Preventing prostate cancer
* Building strong bones
* Mastering lifelong healthy eating habits
* A women's retreat: optimal health in the menopause years
* Sexuality and intimacy
* Mapping out your home strategies for eating and exercising
* Feeling your best all of your life

Also included are 10+ Customized Fitness Classes offered daily (yoga, aquatics, shaping and toning, Pilates, dancing, etc.).The Pritikin program is not all work, however, since the resort offers a full-service spa, tennis courts, private beach club and championship golf courses.

Pritikin also operates a corporate and executive program, custom-designed for each business. It is available year-round and caters to companies looking to improve their employees' productivity and overall health.

There is even a one and two-week summer family program. Weight loss has averaged 10 lbs. in two weeks for children who needed weight loss, according to UCLA data.

The center also offers the following services:

Personal Exercise Training

Personal trainers will assess your abilities and limitations and design exercises especially for you, both for the resort and your home exercise program. Cost: 30 minutes $40/ 60 minutes $75

Nutrition Counseling

Bring all your dilemmas to our dieticians, form restaurant dining to healthy snacking to planning your entire days' menu. Cost: 30 minutes $70/ 60 minutes $125.

Lifestyle Counseling

Individualized counseling is a valuable opportunity to root out issues that cause stress in your life and distract you from your health and weight loss goals. Cost:60 minutes $125.

Smoking Cessation Program 

A customized program is a series of individual appointments with Dr. Manus, the Behavioral Director. Cost: 3-session program $300.

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A typical day's schedule at the Pritikin Center...

6:30-7:30  diabetes check

7:00-7:15  sunrise stretch

6:30-8:30  breakfast

7:30-8:15  cardio exercise, resistance exercise

8:30-9:15  yoga/meditation and aquatics

9:30-10:15  yoga/meditation and aquatics

10:00-11:30  snack

10:30-11:15  salsa aerobics

11:45-12:45  lecture: biology of weight control, or vitamins & minerals, or support techniques, or hypertension, etc.

12:45-1:45  lunch

2:00-3:00 workshop/lecture

3:15-4:00 cooking school

3:30-4:30  snack

4-4:30  diabetes check

4:30-5:30  lecture/workshop

5:30-6:00  happy hour

6:00-7  dinner

&:30-8:30  workshop (stress, exploring wellness, etc.)

Home Delivery of Diet Food

Your weekly Pritikin Eating Plan can be delivered straight to your home.  The price is $225 plus shipping and tax for a full week of ready-to-eat lunches, dinners, soups and desserts. You may also get a customized vitamin package delivered to your door under the Pritikin supplement program.

Non-alumni are also able to enjoy the Pritikin Eating Plan at Home. For $40, you will receive the books, The Pritikin Eating Principle: The Calorie Density Solution and The Pritikin Cookbook.
Additionally, you will be put on the list to receive the Pritikin Perspective newsletter. Together, these materials will teach you about the Pritikin program of diet, nutrition and exercise with proven
techniques for lifelong weight control and healthy lifestyle change.
For details call, 800-327-4914