Talk:Nathan Pritikin

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Resource for expanding the article[edit]

Anyone interested in helping to expand this article can find virtually everything there is to know about Pritikin at UCLA's site of archived documents: Nathan Pritikin papers - Online Archive California. It's a bit tricky to figure out how to use it. There are link selections on the left hand side that bring up various classifications of papers. It seems you have to do a search for something that would likely be in the paper (e.g. "Nathan" or "Pritikin") to see the content of the paper. OccamzRazor 00:13, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deserving of an article[edit]

Nathan Pritikin's profound influence on nutritional practices and scientific study of nutrition and heart diesase is extremely well documented and continues beyond his death. He truly is deserving of a comprehensive biographical article on wikipedia. Unfortunately, I don't know much about him and only today learned that he was not a physician. It is my hope that people who are familiar with his history will contribute to this article. Thank you. OccamzRazor 01:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Original research on the article[edit]

I have received an email that there there is WP:OR on this article. This line is fictional as neither two sources listed say this:

"After being diagnosed with ischemic posterior wall heart disease in 1957 via an abnormal ECG and stress test combined with elevated cholesterol. These are the two sources listed for the above quote".

[1], [2]

On further investigation, only one source describes a diagnosis

"The physicians point out that in February, 1958, Pritikin was diagnosed as having coronary artery insufficiency (without symptoms) secondary to an exercise electrocardiogram."

[3]

Pritikin wasn't diagnosed with atherosclerosis. Coronary artery insufficiency is when there is inadequate blood flow through the coronary arteries. Psychologist Guy (talk) 09:57, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]