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Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne Dies at 96

Posted Jan 23rd 2011 at 11:00 PM by PopEater / Wire Services

Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru who inspired television viewers to trim down, eat well and pump iron for decades before diet and exercise became a national obsession, died on Sunday. He was 96. LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast, said his longtime agent Rick Hersh. LaLanne ate healthy and exercised every ...

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TV Fitness Icon Jack LaLanne, 95, Has Open-Heart Surgery

Posted Dec 16th 2009 at 06:42 AM by PopEater Staff

Indestructible fitness guru Jack LaLanne is recovering from heart valve surgery at his home in Morro Bay, his publicist said Tuesday. The man who brought you 'The Jack LaLanne Show' and the Power Juicer underwent the procedure at a Los Angeles hospital on Dec. 8 and is expected to make a full recovery. Before surgery, he told his family that dying would wreck his image. ...