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May 18, 2024 · Nathaniel Atkins passed away in Julian, North Carolina. The obituary was featured in Greensboro News & Record on May 16, 2024.
- May 18, 2024
- Was it worth it?
- Adelle Davis
- Euell Gibbons
- Gypsy Boots
- Jack LaLanne
- Jerome Irving Rodale
- Jim Fixx
- Joseph Pilates
- Michel Montignac
- Nathan Pritikin
As consumers of pop culture, it’s easy to follow celebrity fad diets and trends as opposed to dedicating ourselves to a regimented, personalized diet plan. Fad diets have that name for a reason: They’re here, they fail, and they’re gone. Unlike transient dieting trends, there are a few time-tested dieting strategies that function more as a lifestyle than a fleeting mode of eating or exercising.
Certain people throughout history have made it their life’s work to conquer the body and mind through exercise and physical fitness. They advocate for their method of eating or exercising over the course of many years. From completely abstaining from carbohydrates to running 80 miles each week while consuming sugar-laden junk foods, the diet and fitness experts featured in the following slideshow achieved guru status in a variety of ways. The question that begs an answer is: Was it worth it? Can foraging for your food or rejecting processed foods help you live a longer, healthier life?
Daisie Adelle Davis, born in February of 1904, championed the belief that processed food is detrimental to our health. We didn’t listen to her: More than half of the American diet is currently made up of “ultra-processed foods.” Her nutritional ideas, such as eating 100 percent whole-grain breads and cereals in addition to eating liver at least onc...
You may remember Euell Gibbons from a 1974 Grape-Nuts commercial in which he said the cereal “reminds me of wild hickory nuts.” Before reaching fame by penning books on foraging, Gibbons had worked as a cowboy, a union leafleteer, a boat-builder, a surveyor, a merchant sailor, and later, a professional beachcomber. Often carrying no solid food and ...
Are you an avid proponent of leading a yoga lifestyle? If so, you may owe some thanks to Robert Bootzin. Lovingly called Gypsy Boots, Bootzin dropped out of high school in 1933 to live off the land in California with a gang of bearded, carefree companions. They eventually became known as the Nature Boys. His close connection to nature, fitness, and...
With unofficial titles like “the godfather of fitness” and the “first fitness superhero,” there’s no way of denying that Jack LaLanne knew a thing or two about exercise and nutrition. Born in September 1914, LaLanne opened one of America’s first fitness-based gyms at the age of 21. He invented many exercise machines that are commonplace in gyms today (e.g., pulley systems and leg extension machines), and he advocated for both women and the elderly to start exercising.
LaLanne’s personal diet varied from three meals of meat, vegetables, and fruit daily to a pescetarian lifestyle and even vegetarianism. He avoided all manmade and processed foods as well as coffee. He also ate plenty of eggs and regularly supplemented his diet with vitamins. His diet and exercise regimen were undeniably successful: At 54 years old, LaLanne beat then-21-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger in an exercise competition. He also lived to be 96 years old, dying of pneumonia-based respiratory failure in 2011. If you’re looking for a guru-inspired longevity recipe, the LaLanne plan could be for you.
The original modern organic food advocate, Jerome Irving Rodale was truly a staunch proponent of sustainable agriculture and organic farming. In fact, Rodale is said to have helped make “organic” the widely used, popular term that it is today. Born in August 1898, Rodale suffered a heart attack at the age of 72 while participating as an interviewee...
At the young age of 35 years old, Jim Fixx was unhappy with his 240-pound frame and his two-pack-a-day smoking habit. He decided to quit smoking and to get in shape by running. By the time of his death at age 52, Fixx had successfully turned his life around and become a verifiable running guru. He changed his lifestyle after picking up the sport, a...
If you guessed that Joseph Pilates had something to do with the controlled movement-based exercise program Pilates, you guessed correctly. Pilates (the man), born in Germany in 1883, suffered from asthma, rheumatic fever, and rickets as a young child. He made it his life’s mission to control his body through fitness, working as a gymnast, bodybuilder, self-defense specialist, circus performer, and boxer. He created the Pilates program to improve posture while strengthening muscles and improving both flexibility and stamina.
Pilates was an advocate for eating healthy, nutritional, proper foods, getting plenty of sleep, and matching your caloric input to your caloric output. This is commonly referred to as calories in, calories out. After picking up a cigar smoking habit, he died at the age of 83 from emphysema. His obituary stated that he was “a white-maned lion with steel blue eyes (one was glass from a boxing mishap), and mahagony [sic] skin, and as limber in his 80s as a teenager.”
The Montignac diet, a predecessor of the more widely known South Beach Diet, was originally designed to help its creator, Michel Montignac, lose some weight. Montignac, a French nutritional advocate and author, suggested that one didn’t need to reduce calories to lose weight. Rather, he suggested a non-restrictive diet, focusing on the glycemic ind...
Nathan Pritikin, born in 1915, was a college dropout who eventually made millions developing patents. In 1957, Pritikin was diagnosed with a heart disease. He made it his mission to find a treatment and, after researching primitive cultures that had little to no instances of heart disease, he championed a primitive vegetarian lifestyle. This lifest...
May 17, 2024 · Nathaniel (Nathan) James Atkins, 43, died unexpectedly May 11, 2024. A native of Julian, NC he was the son of James Forrest Atkins and Heather Little Atkins. Nathan worked at Transource Truck...
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Jul 18, 2017 · Canadian actor Harvey Atkin, best known for his roles in “Meatballs” and “Cagney & Lacey,” died early Tuesday morning in Toronto after a battle with cancer, a rep for Atkin confirmed to...
Jul 18, 2017 · Canadian actor Harvey Atkin, who was a regular on hit U.S. dramas Law & Order and Cagney & Lacey, died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 74.
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian and writer. He played the title roles in the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995), and in the film series Johnny English (2003–2018).
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Jul 18, 2017 · Canadian actor Harvey Atkin, known for his roles in the Ivan Reitman comedy Meatballs and the police drama Cagney & Lacey died Monday. He was 74. Atkin died after a lengthy battle with cancer ...
