Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke. Jack LaLanne More Quotes by Jack LaLanne More Quotes From Jack LaLanne I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in this big sea of iniquity and negativity. Jack LaLanne negativity sea people My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me. Jack LaLanne overweight dad young George Burns was more athletic than you think he was. And he was a very social man. He loved people, he enjoyed life. He worked at living. Old George was a social lion, he got around and did things. That's the key right there. It starts with your brain. Jack LaLanne men years thinking All athletes would be better if they eat better. Junk in equals Junk out. Jack LaLanne junk athlete would-be You can't separate the mind and body. It's impossible. Jack LaLanne body mind impossible Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen - right? Jack LaLanne earth mouths thinking Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught. Jack LaLanne guy limits ears I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer - that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God. Jack LaLanne thank-god kids way If it tastes good, spit it out. All those cakes and pies and candy and ice cream -- all that terrible fast food stuff! I just bought a new corvette sports car ... would I put oil in the gas tank? Would I? Jack LaLanne oil pie sports How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. Jack LaLanne vitamins-and-minerals vegetables exercise You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying! Jack LaLanne dying life Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives. Jack LaLanne stress insomnia sleep Muscle cells strengthen in response to intense exercise - whether you're 18 or 88. But the intensity is what's lacking in most people's workouts. And there are doctors who'll give you the advice, "Well, don't push it." Jack LaLanne doctors workout exercise People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress. Jack LaLanne new-year running years Never, ever get satisfied; keep the carrot in front of the horse. Jack LaLanne carrots horse satisfied If you don't like Corvettes, you don't like sex and money. Jack LaLanne ifs sex I've always liked fast cars and slow women. Jack LaLanne fast-car car People feel so guilty about not exercising. Especially people over 50, who feel like they've gone a lifetime without taking care of themselves. Instead of aiming for perfection, you should try to celebrate the progress you're making. Jack LaLanne perfection exercise people On one of my birthdays I did 1,000 chin-ups and 1,000 push-ups. For my 70th birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it, my feet and hands tied-my hands were in handcuffs, my feet were tied together-and I towed these boats a mile-and-a-half in Long Beach Harbor. For my 93rd birthday I'm going to tow my wife across the bathtub. Jack LaLanne feet beach hands The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime. Jack LaLanne cutting exercise lying
