LIFE CHANGE
Pritikin Longevity Center & Spa delivers a prescription for health NATHAN PRITIKIN had a simple – yet far-reaching – mission: “All I’m trying to do is wipe out heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and obesity.” Diagnosed with advanced heart disease at age 41 and told to “prepare to die young,” the engineer and inventor researched cultures where heart disease was rare and developed a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains. He also started walking and then running, and his cholesterol dropped from 280 to 120. In 1975, he founded the Pritikin Longevity Center, establishing a program of scientifically based and sustainable heart health, nutrition and fitness. In 1978, with Dr. David Lehr of the Miami Heart Institute, he founded the Pritikin Longevity Center in Miami. The research-backed principles of the Pritikin Program are practiced every day at the Pritikin Longevity Center & Spa, which moved to The Spa at Doral in 2009. During stays of one or two weeks or longer, guests receive extensive medical evaluations from board-certified physicians and one-on-one consultations regarding health goals. Based on each guest’s personal prescription, they attend exercise sessions, nutrition and
Doral Golf Resort & Spa, A Marriott Resort
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