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Article: A childhood without Twinkies: young Pritikin modifies his father's draconian fat-free message. (Robert Pritikin, son of dietician Nathan Pritikin, advocates adding some fat back into the diet developed by his father)(Brief Article)(Interview)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 12, 1998
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Young Pritikin modifies his father's draconian fat-free message
Robert Pritikin grew up in the midst of an experiment: his father Nathan Pritikin's belief that an extremely low-fat diet, with fat accounting for only 10 percent of calories, would banish heart disease and other ailments. U.S. News Senior Writer Nancy Shute interviewed Robert, author of the newly published The Pritikin Weight Loss Breakthrough (Dutton, $23.95), during lunch at the French restaurant Lutece in New York City.
When your dad came out with his diet program, I was excited, because I really wanted to cut back on fat. Then I cooked some of the stuff and thought, "I can't live on this; ...