Jack LaLanne

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Too early for Jane Fonda, we had Jack

Barbara Amiel on how Jack LaLanne exhorted us all to stop being slaves to our aging bodies

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Jack LaLanne was Right

Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru who died yesterday at 96 years young, wasn’t only a workout expert and TV personality since the kinescope era. He was a prophet. He was telling us (loudly) that we were too fat and sedentary — perhaps from watching too much TV — before we really thought that was a problem.