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PowerBar founder (and former world-class marathon runner) Maxwell collapses, dies at 51
USA Today ^ | 3/20/04

Posted on 03/20/2004 4:45:19 PM PST by Libloather

Edited on 04/13/2004 1:42:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

SAN ANSELMO, Calif. (AP)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 51; brianmaxwell; collapses; dies; founder; maxwell; obituary; powerbar
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To: Libloather

Brian Maxwell jogs with his wife, Jennifer Maxwell, in 2000. Brian Maxwell, who developed the PowerBar with his wife, died Friday at 51.

81 posted on 03/21/2004 5:01:19 AM PST by csvset
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To: Libloather
Dried milk, whey, milk solids ... used to put protein in most of these bars. Contain some of the worst heart fouling material.

Not all bars, but I believe that power bar is one.

82 posted on 03/21/2004 5:04:53 AM PST by bvw
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To: omniscient
What was it that Ian Fleming said about not wanting to waste the time he had left by worrying about prolonging it?

One of my favorite jokes about exercise is:

The good news is that exercise really will extend your life. The bad news is that the extra time you live will have been spent exercising.

83 posted on 03/21/2004 5:12:59 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: B-Chan
Diet is less important than ability to handle stress.
84 posted on 03/21/2004 5:14:22 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: duckandcover
So get a copy of Dr. Wallach's "Dead Doctors Don't Lie" and find out what's going on.

Is that the program that the MLM pill-pushers use? My sister gave me a tape about that(she's into it) and it was so full of holes I actually laughed.

85 posted on 03/21/2004 5:16:01 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: bvw
Dried milk, whey, milk solids ... used to put protein in most of these bars. Contain some of the worst heart fouling material. Not all bars, but I believe that power bar is one.

Also note that when "health" foods include "grape juice concentrate" in their ingredients (often as the *first* ingredient), it's a code word for "sugar". There are companies that process grapes in a way to remove the flavor and just about everything but the natural sugar, concentrated into a sugar syrup, specifically so that products which don't want to list "sugar" on their ingredients can still put loads of sugar into their products without labeling it that way. "Grape juice concentrate" or "grape extract" or some variation sounds so much more "organic" and health, don't it?

86 posted on 03/21/2004 5:17:22 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Libloather
Don't run, fight.
87 posted on 03/21/2004 5:23:51 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the eneny at least you can piss on their god)
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To: Ichneumon
Sure -- but those high-temparture over-cooked-to-dry milk solids are deadly. Very effective at artery clogging.

Big by-product of the illegal Federal Dairy subsidies and production limits, though. Megatons

88 posted on 03/21/2004 5:26:35 AM PST by bvw
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To: My Dog Likes Me
There is nothing to admire about the "joggers," in my view. They seem addicted to a high they get when they run, supposedly. They need counseling.

So tell me, how does one become so wise to espouse that omniscient view, oh great one?
How can we, the great unwashed, be as urbane and erudite as you?
Please enlighten us, what are the secrets to your success and happiness?

89 posted on 03/21/2004 5:51:09 AM PST by oh8eleven
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To: oh8eleven
A couple of things:

First, Brian was an enormous Bear Backer (Cal Supporter) and didn't get to see the second round elmination of Stanford. So that hurts. He was also an extremely disciplined man. I met him on seven-ten occasions. Last time I saw him was at a wedding in Sausalito. Modest. Humble. Simple. A true gentleman and entrepreneur.
90 posted on 03/21/2004 1:21:46 PM PST by baguette
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To: Libloather
Shame. Homer Simpson would never have made it to the summit of Mt. Springfield without 'PowerBars'.
91 posted on 03/21/2004 1:24:33 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Hand em their arse
Your Question:"...but who the hell knows what works nowadays????"

Response: A good set of genes!

92 posted on 03/21/2004 1:28:09 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (Further, the statement assumed)
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To: oh8eleven
running is a good way to improve tone and reduce weight. no real magic. it's better than the couch potato look.
93 posted on 03/21/2004 1:34:29 PM PST by alrea (Democrats, Europeans, your taxes and the U.N. can stop obesity and create jobs.)
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To: Libloather
Where are all the kooks and educated so and sos that came out when Dr. Atkins bit the dust exclaiming that he died of an unhealthy lifestyle? They are staying right under their rocks this time because of embarresment. The life length is in the genes and there is very little in science that can change ones fate.
94 posted on 03/21/2004 1:34:59 PM PST by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: freeangel
He was my coach back in college. I socialized with him afterward as he was working on the recipe. He was a fantastic person. Anyone who says anything negative about him deserves a smack in the mouth.

95 posted on 03/21/2004 7:48:40 PM PST by againstallhope (another berkeley conservative)
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To: oh8eleven
There is no secret to my success and happiness. In fact, I'm usually depressed (not clinically, but because I watch too much TV news) and I smoke too much. But I don't jog, yet I'm thin. Go figure.

I wrote what I wrote because of the facts below - they ain't pretty.

I first became aware of jogger psychosis when I lived in Boston and was exposed to the annual Boston Marathon. Before the race, many of the race participants would bypass the lines at the portapotties in Hopkington (?) and let loose on residents' yards. (This was all reported in the Globe or Herald.) There was a woman jogger who crossed the finish line a few years back with "stuff" on her legs and a very blank stare on her face. I think she won (the German). This is very weird, me thinks.

If you think that this is the pinnacle of athletic achievement, maybe I'm wrong. It may have been at one point in time, but not anymore. It seems to me a self-inflicted abuse on the body, in the pursuit of some weird perfection.
Ego?

96 posted on 03/21/2004 10:13:08 PM PST by My Dog Likes Me
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To: My Dog Likes Me
If you think that this is the pinnacle of athletic achievement,...

I don't, although I've been running for 22 years and have completed three marathons. Your self description and psychoanalytical obervations of others are all I needed to know.

Next time the runners blow by your window I suggest you pull down the shades, turn off the news and light up a smoke. Life will pass you by in no time.
97 posted on 03/22/2004 4:16:40 AM PST by oh8eleven
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To: oh8eleven
and light up a smoke

Smoking saved my life. Cardiologists speak of the "smoker's paradox". The vasoconstricting properties of cigarette smoke cause chest pain long before an artery is fully blocked. Someone who does not smoke would be blocked 100% before they get the message.

Just a bit of information. Not tinder for a flame war.

98 posted on 03/22/2004 4:30:29 AM PST by Glenn (The two keys to character: 1) Learn how to keep a secret. 2) ...)
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To: Glenn
I'm glad for you - but I don't think smoking is My Dog Likes Me's biggest problem.
99 posted on 03/22/2004 5:11:09 AM PST by oh8eleven
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To: Libloather
I saw the name in the obits in my paper this morning and I thought it said Brini Maxwell.
100 posted on 03/22/2004 5:13:01 AM PST by FrdmLvr
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