by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 22, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Blond, blue-eyed Tab Hunter was so good-looking that he became a leading Hollywood movie star of the 1950s and 1960s. He was very athletic as a competitive figure skater in his youth and a lifelong accomplished horseman, so he was featured in roles such as the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 15, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actress who was famous for more than 50 movies, two Oscars, eight marriages, countless lovers and a net worth at death of more than $600 million. Her eyes are the first thing you notice when you see pictures of her. Instead of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 8, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Donald Ritchie ran more than 208,100 miles during his lifetime as one of the best ultramarathon runners of all time. He set more than a dozen international records for distances from 50 kilometers to 200 kilometers. Exercise has been shown in hundreds of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 1, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Chuck Vinci won gold medals at the 1956 and 1960 Olympic games and the 1955 and 1959 Pan American Games, and set 12 world records in the bantamweight class of weightlifting. He was arguably one of the world’s greatest weightlifters before steroids and growth...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 17, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Neal E. Boyd was a kid who grew up in poverty in the tiny mid-western town of Sikeston, Missouri, and was raised by a loving single mother. The only recognition he ever got in his early years was for weighing more than everyone else in his school, so he wanted to be a...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 3, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
The noted novelist Philip Roth has died at age 85 of heart failure, even though he had changed many of his lifestyle risk factors that caused him to suffer a heart attack at the very young age of 56, which required bypass surgery of all five arteries leading to his...
