You may know him from his infomercials touting his juice machine or you may know him from the many years he has been promoting health and fitness. Either way, Jack La Lanne is a household name when it comes to matters of being physically fit. He is 92 years of age and still in good shape. The following excerpt from a recent interview gives insight into how physical fitness has changed his life for the better.
Metromix.com:
Q. Why is exercising so important to us?
A. To make money. . . . No, no. The only way you hurt the body is, don't use it.
Inactivity is the killer. That's why you have so many incapacitated old people, sitting in their chair [longing for] the good old days. My God, they're just wasting their life away.
Forget the good old days. . . . Today's the day, this is the moment . . . and you're never too old.
Q. Why are you so enthusiastic about exercise?
A. It saved my life. I was a weak, miserable kid . . . a little miserable twerp at the age of 15, a full-blown "sugarholic." I attended a health lecture, and that man said that if you obeyed nature's laws, you could be born again.
I wanted to be born again. I wanted to have a body that the girls would like, and I wanted everybody to like me. . . . I wanted to be an athlete.
What was it all about? The foods you eat, even more than nutrition. . . . Next day, I quit all white flour, white sugar products, joined the Berkeley (Calif.) YMCA, started working out and . . . within 10 days, I was a different human. I was born again.
If something saved your life, would you be enthusiastic about it?
If I hadn't gone to that lecture, I wouldn't be here today.
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