Bernarr Macfadden, who almost single-handedly launched the twin American obsessions with diet and exercise, wanted you to picture a roaring lion when you said his name out loud. Not content with his ...
How A Puny Orphan Through His Own Winning Fight For Strength, Developed the World’s Most Vital Editorial Technique. Back in the nineties a pamphlet appeared—a circular, nothing more—recom-mending an ...
Three cheers for tabloid TV, "alternate facts," fad diets, anti-vaccination hysteria, Chris Hemsworth's abs — all the great 21st-century breakthroughs. And three cheers for the man who anticipated all ...
Today, as you trudge to the gym or begin a new fad diet, spare a weary thanks to Bernarr Macfadden, the eccentric, forgotten father of the American exercise movement. It was 100 years ago, in New York ...
Davis is a contributing writer at Los Angeles magazine. Before Jack LaLanne and Jane Fonda, an odd man with an odd name reigned as America’s health and fitness guru. Bernarr Macfadden championed the ...
DUMBBELLS AND CARROT STRIPS (405 pp.)—Mary Macfadden & Emile Gauvreau—Holt ($3.95). Mary Williamson was only a Yorkshire millhand until Bernarr (“Body Love”) Macfadden, the “Father of Physical Culture ...
HOW MUSCULAR MILLIONAIRE BERNARR MACFADDEN TRANSFORMED THE NATION THROUGH SEX, SALAD, AND THE ULTIMATE STARVATION DIET By Mark Adams HarperCollins, $25.99, 292 pages, illus. Reviewed by Priscilla S.
If you’ve been an adherent to the Atkins or South Beach diets, the new book Mr. America (Harper Collins) might just help you slim down for swimsuit season—and for good—while providing a glimpse at the ...
Before Jack LaLanne and Jane Fonda, an odd man with an odd name reigned as America’s health and fitness guru. Bernarr Macfadden championed the benefits of weight lifting and vegetarianism at a time ...
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