Jack Lalanne

January 24, 2011 by DickH Posted in Current Events, Culture 1 Comment

Growing up in the 1960’s, while home from school on snow days or sick days, I would sometimes stumble on to the Jack Lalanne show as I spun the TV dial from Jack Chase and Don Kent on Channel 4 to Major Mudd on Channel 7. Lalanne was a bit of an oddity back then, but now it’s clear he was a visionary who was ahead of his time. He recently died at age 96.

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One Response to Jack Lalanne

  1. Elias Nugator says:

    On the intersection of good nutrition and exercise as a means to a healthy life, he was easily 25 years ahead of his time. He used to rail against processed sugar back in the 1950’s…

    Elias N.