“People thought I was a charlatan and a nut, [he remembered]. The doctors were against me — they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.”

— Jack LaLanne

In Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/sports/24lalanne.html?_r=0

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