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Jogging not for women
says fitness teacher

‘Tummy exercise’ instead

By CHRIS CRYSTAL

LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Maggie Lettvin ts a 54-

year-old) grandmother

who manages to look

girlish in skin-hugging leotards and long black
hair but she doesn’t keep in shape by jogging.

Topping is not for
women, she said
necd tummy hip and thigh
CRCOPOISES

Women

Docs ashe take vitamin
pulls?

Datly vitamin pills chon t
get the job done Mrs
Lettvin said) Ste belheves tn
‘fertilizing the body with a
vanety of natural vitamouns
and minctrals

Mrs Lettsan dtd meat
bother with fitness until she
was $0 Now she qnaalifies as
an CxApert on cacrcise and

e trials of ar

nutrition Her children
Ktown she teaches fitness at
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and has written
articles and books about
cacroise and nutriton

She said she ignored
physical fitness until she and
her husband Jerry an METI
professor had three half
grown kids

Then she
patntal

suffered ry
cetppling whiplash
accident which
don tors could not cure She
tesolved too find her own

in an

€

cure

She read up oon back
bones She figured out which
exercises would help her
whiplash and oo did) them
religrousty for years

She wie only highly
nutribonal food that gave
her energy and lifted her
spirtts: She satd cxcreoise and
diet cured her whiplash
| Preaching what she
practced, Mrs Lettvin gota
job asa fitress instruckor an
the athlete department at
MII [he day she turned SO
she stunned her MI 1
cactoie class by domg LOO
pushups in aS minutes

A woman does not need a

lave of para hilleus

tranquilizers and mood
altennng drugs to cope with
her physical problems. she
said She needs to nounsh
and cxercise her body
Americans diets are
generally strapped of cnough
nutnents to help a body to
fight germs and poisons and
to Cope with such vitamin:
depleting

tobacco

substances as
alcohol and atr
pollution Mars Lettvin said

Smokers drinkers and
people whe inhabi polluted
arcas need oa lot more
vitamin © she said

Po assure an adequate
daily outnent supply. Mes
Lettivin

CONTIN

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