one of the most important hings to realize that the government never actually admit because there only ambition is to market anything for money is to realize there are no guidelines to follow as everybody is differnet. Its like the morons who try and tell people how much they should eat not taking into account that a 7 ft person is going to eat alot more than a six foot person. its little things like this im beggining to notice about the governments. you choose ur own path
I’m stunned how far ahead of his time he was. The diet is almost spot-on correct. I didn’t know they made yogurt and skim milk back then, plus other low-fat food he mentions. I used to eat 6 small meals a day. It’s BULL. It’s the total calories consumed for the day. I’ll eat 3 plus a snack now and am leaner then when I had the six small meals. Jack’s a smart guy.
@buckwheat40 Not likely, it doesn’t take much food to build up a body like he had. It just takes years of effort seeing as the human body can only realistically put on 5 maybe 10 lbs of muscle each year.
Yogurt has been around for a couple thousand years. I don’t know about skim milk but before homogenized milk a majority of the cream (butterfat) floated to the top of the bottle and was often skimmed off for use in cooking etc. I must disagree about “total calories consumed for the day”. Hormonal reaction to overeating at any one meal necessitates that meals be smaller and distributed over time. You may be right though, that six might be overdoing it.
@saoirsemd You are actually the clueless one. Granted, too survive, we do not need six meals a day. But when dieting or trying to gain muscle mass, 5-6 small meals is the best thing you can do.
Uh, wrong. From a practical standpoint (not bodybuilding), healthy fat free body mass and longevity are both promoted by scheduled fasting and caloric restriction plus paleo nutrition. If you want to get into a credentials war with references, be my guest. I was a professor teaching nutraceutical pharmacology at a Big Ten university college of pharmacy for 6 years and continue to serve on several editorial boards of peer reviewed scientific journals. Respectfully, you are simply incorrect.
Fats..interesting issue.Before margarines and other “Synthetic” fats were introduced,Americans for example consumer a lot of natural,animal fats.Heart disease rates were extremely low.Obesity and HD went rampant AFTER modern,trendy diets were introduced.Low fat milk,skim?As dangerous as full cream milk.Point is,you have to get RAW milk because-its got live bacterias in it that dont turn the fat into bad chloresterol.Its simple,saturated and animal fats aint your enemy-its the new synthetic ones
According to Jack Lalanne’s weight gain plan he recommends 3 big meals with a few snacks in between. The modern day “gurus” have simply converted that advice into 6 small meals per day. It’s whatever works for you and your schedule, and for me that isn’t going to be 1 meal.
And for the record, he is known to take whey protein once per day with raw veggy juice after his morning workout. Also, he is a believer in raw milk and occasionally fasts (I think 24 hours with watermelon juice.)
A lot of people on here say Jack was ahead of his time. I think it’s worse than that for us, we’re all “behind of our time”. Imagine a few years later than this whole “low fat” in all food idiotic craziness started, along with “eggs are bad for you” crap. What about the criminally moronic “drink 8 glasses of water a day minimum” guideline we still hear about. Power drink anyone? lol.
No Jack is talking about timeless nutrition here, REAL natural food, not temporary fads.
I love Jack LaLanne. If you ever get a chance look up his bodybuilding pics. ANY man would LOVE to look like him. I have to hand it to the TRUE Golden Age Bodybuilders like Jack for keeping it real.
Nowadays everyone talks like they’re a fitness expert when the truth is, fitness is a simple thing. everyone keeps making it difficult and confusing. want muscles or gain in mass? lift some heavy ass weight. want to lose fat? tiring ass cardio and eat healthy. it really is easy, you don’t need to read men’s health every month or hire a personal trainer.
You can’t argue with a 95 year-old-guy who even today is happier and healthier than 1000 of us put together…you know what I mean. He’s still doing push-ups and jumping jacks (and where do you think that term came from) at five years out from 100. Did you know he invented the Smith machine and the selectorized weight-pully machines as well?
@Intotheorchard no not true! i study in a university and the state of art is that there are 2 right way: 6 or 3 meals! everything has good and bad sides. there is no right!
January 14th, 2010 - 22:23
one of the most important hings to realize that the government never actually admit because there only ambition is to market anything for money is to realize there are no guidelines to follow as everybody is differnet. Its like the morons who try and tell people how much they should eat not taking into account that a 7 ft person is going to eat alot more than a six foot person. its little things like this im beggining to notice about the governments. you choose ur own path
January 19th, 2010 - 05:43
Jack is a good man and is one hell of a smart guy. He’s a little off, but for this time period he is certainly close.
January 19th, 2010 - 12:55
I’m stunned how far ahead of his time he was. The diet is almost spot-on correct. I didn’t know they made yogurt and skim milk back then, plus other low-fat food he mentions. I used to eat 6 small meals a day. It’s BULL. It’s the total calories consumed for the day. I’ll eat 3 plus a snack now and am leaner then when I had the six small meals. Jack’s a smart guy.
January 26th, 2010 - 23:58
Raw milk is better for you and tastes better.
January 29th, 2010 - 05:01
@buckwheat40 Not likely, it doesn’t take much food to build up a body like he had. It just takes years of effort seeing as the human body can only realistically put on 5 maybe 10 lbs of muscle each year.
February 4th, 2010 - 22:32
Yogurt has been around for a couple thousand years. I don’t know about skim milk but before homogenized milk a majority of the cream (butterfat) floated to the top of the bottle and was often skimmed off for use in cooking etc. I must disagree about “total calories consumed for the day”. Hormonal reaction to overeating at any one meal necessitates that meals be smaller and distributed over time. You may be right though, that six might be overdoing it.
February 7th, 2010 - 09:14
@saoirsemd You are actually the clueless one. Granted, too survive, we do not need six meals a day. But when dieting or trying to gain muscle mass, 5-6 small meals is the best thing you can do.
February 7th, 2010 - 17:51
Uh, wrong. From a practical standpoint (not bodybuilding), healthy fat free body mass and longevity are both promoted by scheduled fasting and caloric restriction plus paleo nutrition. If you want to get into a credentials war with references, be my guest. I was a professor teaching nutraceutical pharmacology at a Big Ten university college of pharmacy for 6 years and continue to serve on several editorial boards of peer reviewed scientific journals. Respectfully, you are simply incorrect.
February 7th, 2010 - 18:00
@saoirsemd Well I can’t beat those credentials, assuming they are true. Ok, then explain why.
February 21st, 2010 - 07:09
Fats..interesting issue.Before margarines and other “Synthetic” fats were introduced,Americans for example consumer a lot of natural,animal fats.Heart disease rates were extremely low.Obesity and HD went rampant AFTER modern,trendy diets were introduced.Low fat milk,skim?As dangerous as full cream milk.Point is,you have to get RAW milk because-its got live bacterias in it that dont turn the fat into bad chloresterol.Its simple,saturated and animal fats aint your enemy-its the new synthetic ones
February 22nd, 2010 - 07:19
According to Jack Lalanne’s weight gain plan he recommends 3 big meals with a few snacks in between. The modern day “gurus” have simply converted that advice into 6 small meals per day. It’s whatever works for you and your schedule, and for me that isn’t going to be 1 meal.
And for the record, he is known to take whey protein once per day with raw veggy juice after his morning workout. Also, he is a believer in raw milk and occasionally fasts (I think 24 hours with watermelon juice.)
March 5th, 2010 - 14:44
“Big Raw Vegetable Salad” when was this filmed? this guy was a head of his time. I only caught on less than 6 months ago and haven’t looked back.
March 11th, 2010 - 19:30
A lot of people on here say Jack was ahead of his time. I think it’s worse than that for us, we’re all “behind of our time”. Imagine a few years later than this whole “low fat” in all food idiotic craziness started, along with “eggs are bad for you” crap. What about the criminally moronic “drink 8 glasses of water a day minimum” guideline we still hear about. Power drink anyone? lol.
No Jack is talking about timeless nutrition here, REAL natural food, not temporary fads.
March 15th, 2010 - 03:39
Jack doesn’t touch milk. He say’s this in his books. He follows 2 meals a day nowadays.
March 17th, 2010 - 22:48
Two meals a day might be ok at his age, but the body’s needs changes with age, etc.
April 2nd, 2010 - 20:14
I love Jack LaLanne. If you ever get a chance look up his bodybuilding pics. ANY man would LOVE to look like him. I have to hand it to the TRUE Golden Age Bodybuilders like Jack for keeping it real.
May 11th, 2010 - 06:31
@swaldo2000 actually he takes soy protein, he does not like dairy products much
May 31st, 2010 - 14:59
@swaldo2000
Lalane, does not eat whey. He doesn’t touch anything dairy. His diet changed somewhat when he got older, but he avoids Dairy in any form.
June 14th, 2010 - 03:36
@imnotabear
This was probably filmed somewhere around 1951, which was when he started on TV. He looks pretty young.
June 17th, 2010 - 16:32
Nowadays everyone talks like they’re a fitness expert when the truth is, fitness is a simple thing. everyone keeps making it difficult and confusing. want muscles or gain in mass? lift some heavy ass weight. want to lose fat? tiring ass cardio and eat healthy. it really is easy, you don’t need to read men’s health every month or hire a personal trainer.
June 26th, 2010 - 18:54
Jack Lalanne is the man and he’s truly a great icon of physical fitness.
August 24th, 2010 - 10:08
You can’t argue with a 95 year-old-guy who even today is happier and healthier than 1000 of us put together…you know what I mean. He’s still doing push-ups and jumping jacks (and where do you think that term came from) at five years out from 100. Did you know he invented the Smith machine and the selectorized weight-pully machines as well?
September 9th, 2010 - 22:01
@Intotheorchard no not true! i study in a university and the state of art is that there are 2 right way: 6 or 3 meals! everything has good and bad sides. there is no right!
September 16th, 2010 - 08:14
Breakfast: Fresh fruit or juice
Eggs or Meat of both
Whole wheat toast with honey
Black coffee or skim milk
Lunch:
Big Raw Vegetable Salad
Meat or fish or low calorie cottage cheese
Dinner:
Big raw vegetable salad
2 or more undercooked vegetables
Meat or Fowl
Fresh friut and yogurt
September 18th, 2010 - 04:15
Wow, television really has evolved in the past 50 years….awesome video anyway though. Thanks for uploading!!