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Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne was an American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker. He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "junk food junkie" until he was 15 years old. He also had behavioral problems but "turned his life around" after listening to a public lecture about the benefits of good nutrition by health food pioneer Paul Bragg. During his career, he came to belie…
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business · American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker (1914–2011) · nutritionist · businessperson · inventor · chiropractor · dietitian · actor · television actor · writer · athlete · bodybuilder · also Jack LaLanne, Francois Henri LaLanne, Francois LaLanne, Jack Lalanne, Francois Lalanne, LaLanne
Born 28 September 1914 · Died 23 January 2011 · Q1677099
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Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the butt. It's like an athletic event. You've got to train for it. You've got to eat right. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom.
t have the time to exercise two hours per day, he recommended 30-minute workouts, 3-4 times a week, and changing one
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“Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the butt. It's like an athletic event. You've got to train for it. You've got to eat right. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom.”
“t have the time to exercise two hours per day, he recommended 30-minute workouts, 3-4 times a week, and changing one”
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“I had to take my lunch alone to the football field to eat so no one would see me eat my raw veggies, whole bread, raisins and nuts. You don”
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Yahoo: The Unusual Diet Behind Jack LaLanne’s Legendary Health
The Washington Post: Obituary: Jack LaLanne, fitness dynamo who helped launch era of health-consciousness
Yahoo: Jack LaLanne Biopic Based On Steven Kaminsky Biography ‘Anything Is Possible’ In Works from Lisa Saltzman, Gunnar Peterson
Los Angeles Times: Jack LaLanne was a healthy showoff to the very end
Los Angeles Times: Opinion: Eulogizing Jack LaLanne
Fox News: PETER JOHNSON JR.: Jack LaLanne's Death Reminds Us of His Message About Life
Variety: Jack LaLanne dies at 96
Died 2011-01-23.
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Psychology Today: The wisdom of Jack LaLanne
Reuters: Fitness lion Jack LaLanne still roaring in winter
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2008).
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Noted that he became an avid swimmer and trained with weights
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Inducted LaLanne into the California Hall of Fame and personally gave him an inscribed plaque at a special ceremony
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LaLanne was awarded The President's Council's Lifetime Achievement Award
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Then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport
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“I can never die; that would ruin my image!”
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LaLanne recorded Glamour Stretcher Time, a workout album that provided phonograph-based instruction for exercising with an elastic cord called the Glamour Stretcher
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The show was picked up for nationwide syndication, and continued until 1985
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His father died at the age of 58 in a San Francisco hospital, which LaLanne attributed to "coronary thrombosis and cirrhosis of the liver"
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Opened the nation's first health and fitness club in Oakland, California, where he offered supervised weight and exercise training and gave nutritional advice
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And the American Athletic Union medal for wrestling in 1936
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Born 1914-09-28.
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