"When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, [he said]. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound — this is what I had to go through."
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In "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement, LosAngeles Times"
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