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Share Guide: You
were born in September of 1914, therefore you are now 91. You are a
great inspiration to those of us who hope to age well.
Jack LaLanne:
You
have to work at living, period. You’ve got to train like you
are
training for an athletic event. Most older people just give up. They
think, “I’m too old for that,” because
they have an ache here or a pain
there. Life is a pain in the butt; you’ve got to work at it.
Share Guide: Are
you still exercising daily
yourself?
Jack LaLanne: Yes, two hours every
day.
Share Guide: And
you eat only natural foods?
Jack LaLanne: If man makes it, I
don’t eat
it! You need to make good health a hobby. Would you get your dog up in
the morning and give him a cup of coffee, a cigarette, and a doughnut?
Well, how about human beings? They get up in the morning with
a
cup of coffee and a doughnut and they wonder why they are sick and
tired and fat. Just ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips!
Share Guide: In our
last interview, you
stated that nutrition is Queen and exercise is King. Do you still feel
this way?
Jack LaLanne: More than ever. You
can
exercise vigorously and eat junk and get by. But you can’t
eat
perfectly and not exercise. Look at many athletes today; they are human
garbage cans. They eat anything, but they exercise so hard they burn it
up. But why not exercise and put the right fuel in too?
Share Guide: Have
you modified your
exercise program since you were younger?
Jack LaLanne: Nope, zero.
It’s harder now; I
can’t do things that I did when I was 20, but I do the best I
can with
the equipment I have. I work out two hours every day and
exercise
until muscle failure. And I change my program every 30 days as always.
Share Guide: Do you
exercise mostly with
free weights?
Jack LaLanne: I do everything. I
do chin ups
and push ups and my pulling machines; I do the weights and I swim in
the pool.
Share Guide: Is
your family long lived? Do
you think heredity plays a part in it at all?
Jack LaLanne: Well, my Dad died at
age 50. I
can’t control heredity, so I don’t think about it.
Why do people die
early? Because they break nature’s laws. The only thing you
inherit is
the darn appetite from your folks. Americans eat all this junk, all
this fast food, and most eat more calories between meals than they do
at mealtime.
Share Guide: Haven’t
you said that you
never snack?
Jack LaLanne: Never. Only water
between
meals.
Share
Guide: Do
you
take supplements regularly?
Jack LaLanne: I take 40 or 50
supplements a
day. I’ve been doing it for years and years. And I
don’t eat processed
foods. You ever read the labels on that stuff? You can’t read
it,
because they’ve got so many preservatives, and artificial
coloring,
artificial flavoring, all of that junk, it’s incredible. And
people put
that junk in their bodies. It’s like my new Corvette; would I
put water
in the gas tank? No!
Share Guide: Are
there any specific
supplements you’ve added on as you got older?
Jack LaLanne: Nope. I take
everything from A
to Z. What’s the difference if you’re five years
old or if you are a
100 years old? You’re body is like an automobile; it needs
certain
fuel. You’re a human machine which needs certain vitamins and
minerals
and enzymes. People say there should be certain things for older
people, but that’s a bunch of bull.
Share Guide: So
you’re saying it’s more
about being ageless rather than aging well?
Jack LaLanne: God helps those that
help
themselves.
Share Guide: You
wrote in your book Revitalize
Your Life that posture
reveals as much about you as your face. Can you explain this?
Jack LaLanne: Posture has to do
with how you
feel. If you are feeling lousy, you tend to slump. You’ve got
to have
pride. Keep your waist in, your chest up, and look straight ahead. Be
happy you are alive! Get up in the morning and say, “Thank
God I’m here
again.”
Share Guide: So
part of posture comes from
mental attitude?
Jack LaLanne: Right, it comes from
how you
feel. There are two things that people have in their lives that will
never fail: pride and discipline. That’s what we’ve
got to teach kids
in school. This is what my buddy Arnold Schwarzenegger is
working
on. He’s going to make it mandatory for physical education to
be taught
in the schools, and he is going to take all the junk out of the
cafeterias, and put in some good healthy food.
Share Guide: Have
you been in touch with
him since he became governor?
Jack LaLanne: Oh, absolutely.
I’m on the
Governor’s Council for Physical Fitness.
Share Guide: What do you think
about the
current low-carb craze?
Jack LaLanne: It’s
a bunch of bull! If God,
or nature, or whatever you want to call it didn’t want you to
mix
carbohydrates, starches and fats, you’d never have a grain,
you’d never
have a vegetable or a fruit, would you? What’s in a grain?
It’s got
carbohydrates, starches, fats, sugar. It’s got everything in
it. Why
does nature do that? One guy says don’t mix carbohydrates,
and the
other guy says don’t mix protein with it; it’s all
a bunch of lard,
something to sell a book. And the poor public is so confused, they
don’t know what to do. That’s why I give
my lectures.
Share Guide: Some
people say that if you
walk regularly for 30 minutes every day, that’s a good enough
amount of
exercise. What do you think?
Jack LaLanne: Walking is good, but
that’s
just one part of it. You’ve got 660 muscles in your body, so
you’ve got
to do a certain amount of strength exercise. The doctors say that if
you are 80, 90 years old, you need to build muscle. How do you build
muscle? Not by walking. You’ve got to work with the weights,
and you’ve
got to do bigger exercise, like swimming vigorously. Also,
you’ve got
to change your program every 30 days, and do something different.
Share Guide: Don’t
you have a new cookbook
coming out?
Yes, I’m working on it right now. It will have tested and
proven
recipes, and natural things you can do at home.
Share Guide: You
believe that a little bit
of red wine with dinner is okay, right?
Jack LaLanne: Yes. Doctors say
that one or
two glasses of wine a day is okay. But they don’t tell you
drink a
gallon! Look at the French people, one of the longest lived people on
this earth. They have wine for lunch and for dinner, but they
don’t get
drunk. You know, if you can’t have something that gives you a
little
pleasure in life, then what the heck is the good of living?
Share Guide: But
you don’t recommend beer?
Jack LaLanne: The trouble with
beer is that
people don’t drink it moderately. They’ll have five
or six bottles of
beer, and then you’ve got 500 or 600 extra calories. If you
have one or
two, that is fine, but most people don’t stop at that.
Share Guide: Do you
take prescription
medications?
Jack LaLanne: Nope. Zero!
Share Guide: No
human growth hormone or any
other stuff like that?
Jack LaLanne: No! Do you know how
many
people are in trouble with taking all these hormones? Look at some of
the athletes, taking all those steroids. It’s terrible.
Share Guide: You
never did that in your
body building days, did you?
Jack LaLanne: No, never. When I
was entering
Mr. America and other contests, all that junk was just becoming
available. I wouldn’t do that—no way.
Share Guide: Do you
still avoid dairy
products?
I have zero. However, if you want to have a glass of skim milk once in
a while, or a little yogurt, that’s fine. But people eat
cream and
butter and cheese…my God, there is all that FAT, which is
big trouble.
There are more people that die prematurely from fats than from anything
else. That’s where you get your kidney trouble and your heart
trouble,
and your incapacity to be able to do things, which takes away your
drive for living.
Share Guide: Do you
do any juice fasts for
detox?
Jack LaLanne: I do, but I only do
it for a
couple of days. I used to do it for 10 days.
Share Guide: You
advocate holistic
medicine, don’t you?
Jack LaLanne: Absolutely. Even
doctors are
accepting it more now. I say stick with Mother Nature as much as
possible. Herbs are great. I will say that doctors are doing a lot of
wonderful things with some of these medications, and they really help
some terminally ill people, but too many rely on that. You know, people
over eat and they don’t exercise and they get fat. Then they
go to the
doctor and they want a shot to make them healthy. It doesn’t
work that
way. Everybody wants a shortcut, but there are no shortcuts. I wish
there were. You see some of these commercials, 3 minutes a day is all
you need. Oh brother! I wish it was that simple.
Share Guide: What
is the maximum that the
human body is designed to live?
Jack LaLanne: At least 120, maybe
up to 150.
Every 10 or so years, the average life expectancy goes up 2–3
years.
It’s up to around 76 now. In the past it was only 50 or even
40. Look
at how many people are living to be 100 now; that’s nothing.
You know,
I can’t afford to die—it would be bad for my image!
Share Guide: Anything
else you want to say
to our readers?
Jack LaLanne: Anything in life is
possible,
if you make it happen. Help the most important person on this earth:
YOU.
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