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  • NAME: Bernarr MacFadden
  • OCCUPATION: Activist, Writer
  • BIRTH DATE: August 16, 1868
  • DEATH DATE: October 12, 1955
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Mill Spring, Missouri
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Originally: Bernard Adolphus McFadden

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Bernarr MacFadden was a well known physical culturist, and became the preeminent advocate for healthy living and exercise.


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Bernarr MacFadden was a well known physical culturist, and a prominent advocate for healthy living and exercise. His work in the field of physical fitness embraced a diet low in meat and high in vegetables and fruits. Other aspects of his program, advocating nudity and open love, shocked the American public.

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