Sattilaro was the chief executive officer of
Methodist Hospital in
South Philadelphia. He was diagnosed at the age 49 with
prostate cancer with multiple
bone metastases. In his book
Recalled from Life (1982), he described how macrobiotics had cured his prostate cancer. He stated that a follow-up examination revealed complete resolution of metastatic bone lesions. In 1989, he died from prostate cancer that his books claimed he had been cured of. According to
William T. Jarvis "he eventually died of his disease, but this fact was not mentioned in the macrobiotic press." ==Publications==