“The crusade is never off my mind — the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think — all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing — physical culture and nutrition — is the salvation of America.”

—  Jack LaLanne

In "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement, LosAngeles Times"

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