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 ...

Just as a surgeon will whip out his scalpel to whittle away proud flesh, so the American Medical Association has whetted the policy of Hygeia, its monthly instrument for the interpretation of modern ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

It would be hard to imagine a more thoroughly American success story than that of Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955). The name would draw a blank in most conversations today, and it is to Mark Adams's ...

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