WEEK 6 CHALLENGE
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WEEK 6 - 1950's (Feb 12-18)
In the 1950s, fad diets turned from citric to cabbage soup and beyond! Fitness took a fun turn with new equipment and TV introduced health-and-fitness shows
Nutrition:
Cabbage-loving dieters rejoiced in the 1950s with the appearance of the Cabbage Soup Diet. While many lost weight within a week, their friends likely kept their distance due to the flatulent side effects of all that stinky soup. The Cabbage Soup Diet promises you can lose 10–15 pounds in a week by eating a limited diet including cabbage soup every day.
Taking grossness to the next level, Opera Diva Maria Callas allegedly lost 50 or more pounds by purposely ingesting a tapeworm. Tapeworms are parasites that may grow over 80 feet in length and live for up to 30 years. In 2013, an Iowa woman bought a tapeworm on the Internet and ingested it, prompting a public health official to issue a warning that eating tapeworms is “extremely risky and can cause a wide range of undesirable side effects, including rare deaths.”
Fitness:
The 1950s was a decade personified by fun, and this applied to ‘keep fit’ too. New pieces of equipment were added to the more traditional floor exercises: enter the hula hoop and the Bongo Board, the fitness craze that spawned the modern balance board.
Who could have known that something as simple as a plastic exercise hoop would have taken off so astronomically? 25,000,000 hula hoops were sold in less than four months, while over the next two years, sales exceeded 100,000,000 units.
Children and adults alike were swept up in the craze, but while the younger generation saw the hula hoop as good old fashioned fun, men and women were quick to catch onto the potential health benefits of the toy (with a little help from marketing campaigns, of course). Whether you wanted to show off your skills or burn some calories, the hula hoop was the tool of choice.
Right around the time that the federal government was getting serious about exercise (the President's Council on Youth Fitness was formed in 1956), Jack LaLanne was hosting The Jack LaLanne Show—one of the longest-running health-and-fitness shows in history, which went on the air in 1951. Eight years later, LaLanne developed the Glamour Stretcher. It was the first elastic band used for resistance training, though LaLanne may not have called it that.
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In the 1950s, fad diets turned from citric to cabbage soup and beyond! Fitness took a fun turn with new equipment and TV introduced health-and-fitness shows
Nutrition:
Cabbage-loving dieters rejoiced in the 1950s with the appearance of the Cabbage Soup Diet. While many lost weight within a week, their friends likely kept their distance due to the flatulent side effects of all that stinky soup. The Cabbage Soup Diet promises you can lose 10–15 pounds in a week by eating a limited diet including cabbage soup every day.
Taking grossness to the next level, Opera Diva Maria Callas allegedly lost 50 or more pounds by purposely ingesting a tapeworm. Tapeworms are parasites that may grow over 80 feet in length and live for up to 30 years. In 2013, an Iowa woman bought a tapeworm on the Internet and ingested it, prompting a public health official to issue a warning that eating tapeworms is “extremely risky and can cause a wide range of undesirable side effects, including rare deaths.”
Fitness:
The 1950s was a decade personified by fun, and this applied to ‘keep fit’ too. New pieces of equipment were added to the more traditional floor exercises: enter the hula hoop and the Bongo Board, the fitness craze that spawned the modern balance board.
Who could have known that something as simple as a plastic exercise hoop would have taken off so astronomically? 25,000,000 hula hoops were sold in less than four months, while over the next two years, sales exceeded 100,000,000 units.
Children and adults alike were swept up in the craze, but while the younger generation saw the hula hoop as good old fashioned fun, men and women were quick to catch onto the potential health benefits of the toy (with a little help from marketing campaigns, of course). Whether you wanted to show off your skills or burn some calories, the hula hoop was the tool of choice.
Right around the time that the federal government was getting serious about exercise (the President's Council on Youth Fitness was formed in 1956), Jack LaLanne was hosting The Jack LaLanne Show—one of the longest-running health-and-fitness shows in history, which went on the air in 1951. Eight years later, LaLanne developed the Glamour Stretcher. It was the first elastic band used for resistance training, though LaLanne may not have called it that.
NO TNT THIS WEEK - AMAZING RACE RUNS FOR THE WHOLE WEEK!
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