After more than 30 years of managing the Willow Creek Hatchery in Edmonds, the local chapter of Trout Unlimited has decided to turn over its stewardship.

Edmonds Parks and Recreation Director Carrie Hite confirmed that Sound Salmon Solutions, a nonprofit organization and regional leader in salmon conservation, has agreed to take over management of the hatchery operations and expand educational programming and outreach activities.

Also operating on site is the volunteer-run Wildlife Habitat Native Plant Demonstration Garden run by the Pilchuck Audubon Society.

Our feeling is that rather than taking it over, we are carrying on the work that Trout Unlimited has done for the past 30-plus years, said Executive Director Rodney Pond of Lake Stevens-based Sound Salmon Solutions, a nonprofit working to ensure the future of healthy salmon runs in the Snohomish, Stillaguamish and Island county watersheds.

The nonprofit has a picnic at Willow Creek Hatchery Aug. 26.

We will be transitioning the current group of volunteers running the hatchery; they will continue to do so. Were going to take over operations and development of the hatchery. They want to see programs at the hatchery grown and built upon.

A professional services agreement was signed in February to cover staff time for training and grant writing, and Sound Salmon Solutions staff has been working closely with Trout Unlimited with the goal of fully taking over operations at the facility in 2018.

Weve been doing 10-year leases with Trout Unlimited, Hite said. In 2014, we sat down with them and looked at their goals and their operations. They said they didnt have an interest in another 10-year lease; they said they were all getting old, the job was very physically demanding and they thought they were at the end of their life at the fish hatchery.

Trout Unlimited agreed to stay on until a successor was found.

They are a large, energetic group that will be able to continue the work we began nearly 30 years ago, said John Hjord, a past president of Trout Unlimited.

Hatchery manager Walter Thompson agreed.

Theyll do the nuts and bolts of the operation, said the Edmonds resident, 73. The volunteers where will continue on, but Sound Salmon Solutions is a younger group much more comfortable with social media, that sort of thing, and recruiting volunteers.

"Our membership is getting very old, and its difficult to get people to come on board and volunteer time for these kind of activities. Weve turned a corner, and our vision is more of an educational outreach program to the local school districts as opposed to focusing on salmon enhancement programs.

Hite said she and her staff did plenty of research of hatcheries before agreeing on Sound Salmon Solutions.

There are two schools of thought if the hatcheries are helpful or not, she said. After the research, we decided we thought the hatchery would be helpful from an educational point of view. So our No. 1 priority is to continue salmon education by running the hatchery. And who better than Sound Salmon Solutions to take it over?

That education includes hundreds of Edmonds and Shoreline elementary school students who have participated in Willow Creek Hatchery and Edmonds Fishing Pier field trips. Today, the Edmonds-Woodway High School group Students Saving Salmon meets at the hatcherys main building.

To be clear, the city of Edmonds owns the hatchery, but does not provide money, resources or staff to run it. Throughout the years, Trout Unlimited has provided volunteer labor and paid for utilities there.

The city, which provided a $1,500 grant to help Sound Salmon Solutions work with Trout Unlimited on the transition, it will charge Sound Salmon Solutions $1 per year for its lease.

Founded in 1974

The Edmonds/Laebugten Salmon Chapter of Trout Unlimited is affiliated with the Washington Council of Trout Unlimited. It was founded in 1974 by 17 concerned sport fishermen in response to diminishing salmon available to recreational fishermen.

Since 1979, the chapter has sponsored a Coho salmon net pen-rearing project under the Edmonds Fishing Pier. It has been on hold since the piers rehabilitation in March 2016, and Sound Salmon Solutions is not interested in continuing its operation.

Thompson said he is seeing if Puget Sound Anglers, a conservation group, is willing to take over the project.

After years of fundraising and contributions, the Trout Unlimited chapter built the Willow Creek Hatchery and Aquatic Education Center in 1985. It is one of the largest privately maintained and volunteer operated hatcheries in the state.

Under the supervision of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, it has raised and planted an average of 100,000 salmon each year.

Sound Salmon Solutions

Ponds organization is familiar with Edmonds streams and wetlands.

In November 2016, thanks to the Rose Foundations Puget Sound Mitigation and Restoration, it provided a grant to Students Saving Salmon and Stream Team student groups.

It enabled students to continue water-quality testing at Willow, Shell and Shellabarger creeks in Edmonds, as well as at the Edmonds Marsh.

At the Willow Creek Hatchery, at Pine Street and State Route 104, Sound Salmon Solutions will work on writing grants and securing donations while recruiting new volunteers to work alongside Trout Unlimited members.

Edmonds Trout is unusual in terms of other Trout Unlimited chapters in that its always had a salmon focus, Pond said. Its a bunch of old white guys who arent recruiting new members. It would have been a shame if the hatchery were mothballed after all these years.

My understanding is that those guys are still very much invested in volunteering for the hatchery, and we are absolutely going to need them. I know some of those guys. Its just part of their life. Theyre retired, they love raising the fish, love working with the kids. Its a home away from home for them.

Ironically, while Trout Unlimited is all about salmon education and raising salmon, Pond said Trout Unlimiteds national stance is more or less against hatcheries.

It focuses on wild-fish populations, with a position that supports healthy wild fish population, Pond said. We agree its healthy all around for the species. We need diversity thats wild, thats subject to natural evolutionary forces and the changing of the environment.

However, salmon are very different. Its absolutely essential to the sustenance and spiritual lives of our local tribes. Theres a big investment to keep these hatcheries running. If we didnt have hatcheries, we wouldnt have salmon. Wed have salmon, but there would be so few of them here in Puget Sound.

Pond pointed out an incongruity: Hatcheries do muddy up the genetics of wild populations. Its basically running semi-domesticated species into the same environment as wild species. Its like running domestic goats with wild goats. Its going to bring down the genetics of the wild salmon population.

With that in mind, its pertinent to point out that Willow Creek Hatchery which used to be called Deer Creek Hatchery for reasons that remain murky has never been strictly a production hatchery.

Its been for educating kids about the salmon lifecycle, salmon release and getting them interested in the watershed and the environment. It contributes very little to salmon that return, if any at all.

Pond said details of the stewardship succession of the hatchery will be worked out in a meeting next month.

Were thrilled to be doing this, he said. This place is an Edmonds institution.Theres been so much community involvement going on. Theres generations of people. Adults bring their kids and grandparents bring their grandchildren.

I dont see any reason to change, just add to it. Our ambition is build a more comprehensive education center, and the hatchery will be part of that.

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This is an article by Mark Kolsen. It appears in the current issue of American Atheist magazine, which is sold at Barnes & Noble, Book World, and Books-A-Million bookstores in the United States and at Chapters/Indigo bookstores in Canada. To find a store near you or to subscribe, go to atheists.org/magazine.

In November, ten minutes after walking into a hospital emergency room, I lay on a bed, completely surrounded by medical staff preparing me for a catheter. My left anterior descending artery (a.k.a. the widow maker) was completely blocked, and I needed a stent to restore my blood flow.

Just beyond the staff encircling me, I noticed a middle-aged man wearing a Hospital Chaplain sign. (And it was a sign, not a name tag or ID badge. It was about five by eight inches and held around his neck by a string.) When someone asked me about relatives, the hospital chaplain offered to call my first mate, and he was the one who took my clothes and valuables and assured me that they would be safe during my surgery. And just before I was carted off to the operating room, the chaplain asked, What denomination of clergy would you like me to call?

Somewhat surprised, I said that I was an Atheist.

You want to be an Atheist at a time like this? he replied.

Time like this? For a moment the question baffled me. Should I worry because its Friday afternoon, a reputedly bad time to check in to a hospital? Then I snapped to and realized that even though I didnt think that my life was in danger, the chaplain did. And if I were to die, well

Sorry, but I know the science, I responded with a smile. Thanks for your help, anyway. At that, the chaplain slithered away.

Later, as I reflected on my experience, two things struck me. First, the hospital chaplain never offered me non-religious options, such as the secular humanist chaplains now available in the U.S. military. Such options exist elsewhere. In Belgium, non-denominational institutions have a team of usually Catholic and atheist spiritual care givers. In 2015, Britains National Health Service mandated equal treatment of those without a religion in the receipt of pastoral care. Shortly thereafter, Jane Flint became the first secular humanist hospital chaplain in Great Britain. Her job is to offer emotional support to terminally ill atheist patients and their relatives. In the Netherlands, spiritual caregivers in hospitals comprise both humanist and non-aligned chaplains. And in Scotland, with policy guidance from the Scottish Humanist Association, chaplains are expected to work with different faiths and those of no faith.

Chaplains, after all, are not just for theists. There is widespread agreement that all people have spiritual, as opposed to religious, needs. In a recent article for the online journal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, Marcelo Saad and Roberta de Mediros define spirituality as the search for ultimate meaning, purpose, and significance in relation to oneself, family, others, community, nature and sacred, expressed through beliefs, values, traditions and practices. And regarding hospital patients, a recent white paper on ProfessionalChaplains.org states that while serious illness is a biological event, it frightens patients and isolates them from their support communities when they need them most. Losses such as physical and cognitive capacities, independence, work or family status, and emotional equilibrium, along with the accompanying grief, can seriously impact their sense of meaning, purpose and physical worth.

Recognizing that sick and terminal hospital patients especially have spiritual needs, the World Health Organization (WHO) International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems includes billing codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findingsand for some spiritual interventions. Here in the U.S, Medicare and Medicaid have agreed to let hospitals claim reasonable costs for clinical pastoral education, and will pay for end-of-life conversations, during which terminal patients can articulate to their providers what kind of medical interventions they do or do not want.

However, unlike other nations, no hospital is required by law or accreditation fiat to provide pastoral care in the United States. And, in contrast to the WHO, the National Uniform Billing Committee has refused to provide billing codes for chaplains. Nevertheless, in 2003, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations said hospitals should demonstrate respect for patient needs, including the need for pastoral care and other spiritual services. Hospitals appear to have responded. Although a 2008 study reported that only 59% of American hospitals had chaplains, a more recent study reported that 70% of community hospitals employ chaplains today.

Online, many hospitals advertise spiritual services. However, I found none that advertise non-religious i.e. secular humanist or Atheist chaplains. This is ironic for several reasons. In metro areas, fewer than half of hospital patients identify themselves as church members when admitted, hospitals serving primarily pediatric patients have a higher prevalence of religiously unaffiliated family members, and the number of non-religious millennials continues to grow.

Atheist chaplains do exist in a few hospitals. But rarely are they paid staff members, despite the fact that chaplains services cost very little, and many hospitals advertise their services for no charge. Recognizing the problem and seeking to increase employment opportunities for their members liberal theist organizations are training their own chaplains to care for Atheists. Acknowledging that hospitals do not usually hire humanist or Atheist chaplains, one veteran theist chaplain puts it bluntly: As the number of unaffiliated and nonreligious persons climb, [theist] chaplains become by default the primary spiritual care givers in a hospital community.

Not all medical groups are oblivious to Atheists needs. According to Toni Van Pelt, nursing home directors have approached the Institute of Science and Human Values for advice on how to meet the needs of their secular residents. Likewise, a recent joint commission report focused on the language, racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of hospital populations. Cultural diversity, the report points out, includes religious preferences. As non-religious patients increase in number, hospitals must start to recognize that Atheists need staff who share their beliefs.

Theist chaplains, well-meaning as they may be, do not meet Atheists needs. Dr. Jason Heap, who has filed suit seeking to become the first humanist chaplain in the military, has trained other humanist chaplains. He says, If the chaplain with whom you are confiding offers theistic-based reflections or prayers to your existential questions, what practical value does this have in your situation?

Stephanie Wernek, an Atheist hospital chaplain in Rio Grande Valley, points out she has met many people under the age of forty who were adamant non-theists. Even in this deeply theistic part of the country, there exist many people who feel silenced and atomized by their lack of affiliation with a religious group that believes in a deity.

Vanessa Gomez Brake, Director of the Chaplaincy Institute, says, a need for atheist chaplains exists [A]t its core, chaplaincy is about taking the sacred out of the church, mosque, synagogue and temple, to bring it to the people, whatever their circumstances.

In addition to not being offered an Atheist chaplain, my hospital experience raised another issue. Why, I wondered, was a chaplain mingling with the medical team attending to me? I had not requested his presence; like many other people, I felt no need for a chaplain. In fact, upon reflection, his lurking around my body, and his overhearing my conversation with the medical team, was an intrusion into my privacy.

I am not the first to ask this question. As more hospitals employ chaplains, their precise role, especially their access to patient information, is now a subject of contentious debate. Chaplains, supported by some academics, argue that they provide a range of services, making them part of the medical team. Many also reject the assertion of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) that health care does not include methods of healing that are solely spiritual and that practitioners that provide solely religious healing services are not health care providers.

This debate is not just about semantics or chaplains searching for employment. Under the DHS Privacy Rule, chaplains access to patient records without a patients permission depends on whether the hospital considers them medical providers and some do. Without your consent, chaplains considered medical providers could access information about your general condition, spiritual affiliation, and anything else related to your medical history or treatment. In short, they could know as much as your doctor would about you.

Encouraged by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, which is the main accrediting agency for chaplaincy in the U.S., hospital chaplains are already stepping beyond their bounds. Some chaplains and chaplaincy programs have begun to engage in activities that have ranged from initiating conversations with and perusing the medical records of patients who have not requested their services to suggesting that, because they are chaplains, they be permitted to do spiritual assessments on patients whether or not the patients are explicitly informed and agree to this beforehand. In some hospitals, especially religiously affiliated ones, a chaplain functions as a full member of the healing team.

As a result, some academics and doctors are sounding an alarm. Pointing to the fact that members of healthcare teams are not equal in education, experience, and status, Roberta and Erich Loewy state that hospital chaplains are not considered healthcare professionals either in fact or in principle and, arguably, not even allied healthcare professionals. Rather, they are considered an ancillary part of the healthcare team that is generally classified under the further, functional descriptor, patient support services.

The Loewys argue convincingly, in my view that while hospital chaplains may serve some critical functions in the healthcare of patients, it is a breach of confidentiality to allow a chaplain access to a patients medical records unless the patient is fully informed, understands the implications of such access, and either wholeheartedly acquiesces or initiates such a request. Otherwise, chaplains and doctors may have access to information, including conversations, which patients assumed to be private and confidential.

Moreover, the Loewys believe that chaplains should encounter patients only if patients request their presence because the unsolicited appearance of a chaplain may range from innocuous simply embarrassing or uncomfortable to intrusive or even threatening. As I think back to my ER experience, their words resonate.

The proper role of hospital chaplains will continue to be debated. Right now, Atheists need to be aware that, like me, you may unexpectedly face chaplains after entering a hospital, especially at your most vulnerable moments. These individuals are likely to be theists. If a hospital considers them to be healthcare professionals, they may have access to a lot of information youd rather not share.

Mark Kolsen recently retired from teaching high school in Wheaton, Illinois. He is an avid fan of the Four Horsemen, the late Victor Stenger, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. He strives to understand all facets of scientific cosmology and evolutionary biology.

[Hemants note: All footnotes and citations for this article can be found in the print edition.]

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Demi Lovato is all about that fit life. The superfit singer recently launched her #Demi4Fabletics activewear collection, and she took a few minutes to talk with POPSUGAR about her health journey, her routine, and how she uses fitness to take care of her mind, body, and soul.

Demi originally started her fitness routine because she wasn't feeling her best. "I was tired of feeling lethargic and not taking care of my body," she told POPSUGAR. "I decided to change that, so I got a trainer and I started working out." It was a snowball effect from there she now works out over six hours a week, eats exceptionally clean, and feels significantly better than before.

She uses healthy living as a form of self-care and loves what her lifestyle has done for her everyday happiness. "I believe [self-care] is like a pyramid," she said. "There are three things that you need to feel great. There's physical fitness, nutrition, and mental health."

"I think it's important to take care of yourself emotionally and physically, but mainly emotionally, because if you're not taking care of yourself emotionally, your mind can go to dark places. It's important to learn to love yourself for who you are, and accept yourself," she said.

Sundays might be a rest day for Demi, but she's going hard on the other six days a week.

"I work out six days a week and I take Sundays off," she said. "Several days I'll do an hour of cardio, and several days a week I'll do an hour of strength training. On top of that, some days during the week I'll work out for two hours where I'll do an hour of cardio and an hour of MMA, or I'll do an hour of strength training and an hour of MMA but I don't do that every day!"

Demi noted that recently, she started adding more cardio to her routine, and she feels fantastic for it. "I feel like my stamina is up and I'm able to have longer, more rounds when I box and things like that."

But of all the ways she works out, she said, "My favorite workout is ju-jitsu. I love training ju-jitsu. When you're rolling with somebody, you're constantly thinking of defending or attacking moves, so it's kind of meditative in a way, but it's also a great workout when you're training when you're really moving around with somebody."

"I don't eat anything if it doesn't grow or if it doesn't walk," she said, emphasizing her draw to natural, whole foods and a squeaky clean diet. "No processed foods, and not really any refined sugar or flour, but I sometimes treat myself!"

The treats in question? Chocolate and cashews. "I like cashew butter anything with cashews! Cashew milk . . . [and] dark chocolate is really helpful when you have a sweet tooth. I don't eat out at restaurants; I have a nutritionist chef full time so I eat at my house and on the road."

The "Demi uniform" for the gym has three parts and she likes an extra layer to intensify the sweat for each of her workouts. "It's a pair of leggings, sports bra, and a zip-up jacket so I sweat a little more," she said (you'll see a lot of these combos in the Fabletics collection).

We asked what her favorite piece is from the new collection with Fabletics; spoiler, it's the pants in the photo above (Fabletics Jordana Legging, $140). "I love the [legging] with the elastic band around the waist I think it's super chic and sexy." Ditto.

"My favorite part about fitness is the way you feel afterwards," Demi told POPSUGAR. She's noticed a drastic change in her mood and mental health since starting her healthy regimen, so it makes sense that she'd want to keep going.

But even with the best motivation, it can still be challenging to get yourself out of bed for a workout. "Seventy-five percent of the challenge is getting to the gym," she said. "Putting your clothes on, tying your shoes, getting to the gym . . . but once you're there, it's a lot easier."

Here's her advice: "Put on your clothes, do what you gotta do to get there, have some pre-workout or drink coffee . . . whatever it is! And when you're finally at the gym, you owe it to yourself to take care of your body. If you're feeling sluggish or like you don't want to work out, just remember what good it's going to do for your body and how great you're going to feel afterward."

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It also seems like everybody can be appropriate to that. And they can do it very quickly without working out. You will find out the reason why I put this product in my list of the best over the counter diet pills that work fast without exercise in subsequent parts.

Not only can PhenQ reduce your weight by burning fat but it also can enhance your mood. It sounds a little funny, doesnt it? I had the same feeling when I first read its effects. However, it does make more sense when you understand its principle, which is called under an affectedly pretty name: Emotional Eating. It means that you use food to fill craters in your soul rather than to make your stomach full. And that is extremely easy for anybody to get obesity.

Therefore, PhenQ was produced and capable to stop that by making you feel more optimistic. Not many diet pills can do that and that is why I put it in this list of the best weight loss pills that work fast without exercises. My sister, Barbara, used to take advantage of PhenQ when she was diagnosed to have obesity and depression after giving birth. And those supplements helped her a lot. I witnessed her change from physical to mental condition, which was so magically.

She lost over 70 pounds and recovered from depression within only 5 months. That was the highest speed I had ever known. All thanked to PhenQ burning the fat, preventing it from producing more, and enhancing both of her mood and energy.

It uses Capsimax Powder instead of Capsaicin, as in Phen375, to increase your body heat. That is a composition of piperine, caffeine, niacin, and capsicum. It contains active thermogenesis, which is responsible for burning more calories.

Moreover, the calcium carbonate will maintain the healthy fat and give you energy when your weight is reducing. Also, you will feel very cheery and your bones will be a lot more enduring than before.

And finally, chromium picolinate is the main ingredient that will reduce the amount of sugar, calories, and prevent them from producing too much. It can be found in various foods, such as vegetables, meat, or wholegrain. With the content that PhenQ has, you wont have to worry about gaining weight ever again.

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By Marlene Cimons, The Washington Post

Exercise by itself wont help you lose weight.

This is not to say that exercise isnt good for you; it is, in fact, great for you. It conveys an astonishing array of health benefits.

But and we all hate hearing this many experts, while extolling the benefits of exercise, say the primary villain when it comes to excess weight is whats on our menu. To lose weight, we have to cut calories.

Exercise helps keep lost pounds off, but exercise alone cant do the initial job of losing it.

I think the role of exercise in weight loss is highly overrated, says Marc Reitman, chief of the diabetes, endocrinology and obesity branch of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, or NIDDK. I think its really great for being healthy, but Im a strong believer that overeating is what causes obesity. To exercise your way out of overeating is impossible.

Michael Joyner, a Mayo Clinic researcher who studies how people respond to the stress of exercise, agrees. The key for weight loss is to generate and maintain a calorie deficit, he says. Its pretty easy to get people to eat 1,000 calories less per day, but to get them to do 1,000 calories per day of exercise walking 10 miles is daunting at many levels, including time and motivation, he says.

To be sure, some people can work weight off, experts say. These include those who exercise vigorously for long periods, and professional athletes, who typically engage in high-intensity workouts.

But they are the exceptions. Those high-level workouts are not something most people do, says Philip F. Smith, co-director of NIDDKs office of obesity research. Walking for an hour wont do it.

Joyner agrees. Theoretically, people can exercise enough to lose without changing what they eat, but they have to exercise a whole lot, he says.

Moreover, moderate exercise doesnt really burn all that many calories, especially when you think about a single piece of chocolate cake, which has between 200 and 500 calories. Most people burn only about 100 calories for every mile of running or walking, although this can vary depending on the person, according to Joyner. Put another way, to lose one pound, you must run a deficit of about 3,500 calories meaning that if you burn an excess 500 calories a day, it would take a week to drop that pound.

Kevin D. Hall, an NIDDK scientist who studies how metabolism and the brain adapt to diet and exercise, agrees that a modest degree of weight loss would require large amounts of exercise. However, high levels of physical activity seem to be very important for maintenance of lost weight, he adds, defining high as more than an hour of exercise daily.

In a recent study, Hall concluded that exercise typically result[s] in less average weight loss than expected, based on the exercise calories expended, and that individual weight changes are highly variable even when people stick to exercise regimens.

The likely reason is that people tend to compensate for changes in food intake and non-exercise physical activities, Hall wrote. Or, as Joyner puts it: If people replace non-exercise but otherwise active time with sedentary time, sometimes things cancel out.

Strength training or resistance training lifting weights, for example also is important for overall health, but, as with other forms of exercise, it doesnt prompt weight loss. (In fact, it may cause the reading on the scale to inch up a bit, because muscle is denser than fat.) Nevertheless, strength training is good to maintain lean tissue, Joyner says.

And you cant count on exercise to increase your metabolism for several hours afterward.

Exercise, if hard enough and long enough, certainly can do this, Joyner says. But again, it depends on how much, what type and how hard. A two-mile stroll, while a good thing, will not do too much to resting metabolism.

But now the good news: Exercise remains one of the best things you can do for yourself. It enhances health in numerous ways.

It strengthens the heart and lungs. It reduces the risk of Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, a collection of symptoms that include hypertension, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels.

Weight-bearing activities, such as running, strengthen bones and muscles. Having strong bones prevents osteoporosis, helping to avert bone-breaking falls in the elderly. For older people, exercise facilitates the capacity for them to stay engaged in life, Joyner says.

Exercise also reduces the risk of certain cancers, including breast and colon cancer. It elevates mood, and it keeps thinking and judgment skills sharp.

Overall, it helps you live longer. People who work out for about seven hours a week have a 40 percent lower risk of dying early compared with those who exercise less than 30 minutes a week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Exercise in almost any dose does so many good things for people, Joyner says.

Is one exercise more effective than another?

I love to play soccer, Smith says. I would do anything to play soccer, and try to play three times a week until my body cant take it. But people should exercise as much as they can tolerate and enjoy. Thats what they should shoot for.

Reitman agrees. The best exercise is the one you keep doing, he says.

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I have been experiencing some very personal revelations regarding exercise for people over 60, and have met some amazing seniors doing great things in creating quality of life. And friends, whether or not exercise adds a single day to your life is almost irrelevant. Its not about longevity, its about quality. And even though I started by mentioning people over 60, 40- and 50-year-olds should pay attention, too.

In the past 12 weeks I have shed another 20 lbs., raising my total to a 45 lb. weight loss. I have not starved myself, and I have not suffered. I feel incredibly younger, stronger and with more mental clarity and work productivity. I have more energy for my family and friends, and I can keep a better pace with the grandkids. My blood sugar and blood pressure have totally normalized. I am sleeping better, and feel happier on a day-to-day basis. These benefits are called NSVs, or Non-Scale Values, which is just another way of saying quality of life.

OK, so thats me. Maybe Im special. But really, I am not. Average individuals are discovering functional capacity that they never thought they would achieve. One 88-year-old friend started doing one simple exercise coming to a standing position from a chair using just her legs. She walks with a walker for stability, but now has the strength to rise up and down from the chair 10 times. When she started, she could barely do one.

There are many ways to improve your health. I have recently met people in an online group in their 40s who have lost more than 100 lbs., even more than 200 lbs. through diet and weight training without bariatric surgery.

There is overwhelming evidence that diet and exercise are the two most powerfully beneficial drugs that you can take. There is also powerful evidence that weight training for seniors is beneficial at every age.

As a senior, you are not just trying to get in shape. You are seeking to change your life habits, to do so enjoyably, to incorporate good nutritional advice in an exercise program thats right for you, and most importantly, to do so without injuring yourself. These things are best accomplished in a supportive environment. I know that I needed that support to get me going. In the beginning, my goal was simple I was well on my way to becoming a Type 2 diabetic, and having watched both my mother and father have their lives very limited by diabetes, I finally reached the point where I said Enough! I am not doing that!

Now I have no concern at all about diabetes, and have discovered a huge list of positive non-scale quality of life values that keep me happy and motivated every day, and I am in a group of more than 100 other people who are all doing the same.

Here are some local resources to help you get started. If you email me, I will send you a list of valuable online sources for education and support.

Central Lincoln County YMCA Damariscotta, 563-3477Boothbay Region YMCA, 633-2855Bath Area Family YMCA, 443-4112Landing YMCA, Brunswick, 844-2801Casco Bay YMCA, Freeport, 865-9600Womans Fitness Center Brunswick, 729-5544Body Symmetry Pilates Studio Brunswick, 729-1122Orange Circuit Fitness Brunswick, 725-2944Ocean Blue Fitness Damariscotta,563-2668

Steve Raymond is director of community outreach at the Lincoln Home in Newcastle, and the producer and host of the television show Spotlight on Seniors. Jill Wallace is the owner and director of Elm Street Assisted Living in Topsham.

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Who doesn't wish they had a body like a celeb, let alone the drop-dead gorgeous figure of 48-year-old actress Jennifer Aniston? Seriously, what does she do to look completely amazing?! Recently, Jennifer sat down with Now To Love and revealed her diet and exercise secrets and because of her confessions, were officially dubbing the super-relaxed star "Zen Jen."

Along with her personal trainer, at-home, sleeping bag-style saunas (yes, really), and using the treadmill, Jen is also all about finding her inner-chill through strength-conditioning classes that are as physically effective as they are mindfully meditative and she has the mind, body, and soul to prove it. Scroll down to see Jen's diet and exercise routine!

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Mixing things up throughout the year, Jen explained that 2017 is about being back in the gym and sweating it out with an interval-loving personal trainer. Im working with my trainer who has me pushing really heavy things, throwing heavy things, whipping around ropes, and crawling across the floor, she said. Hes a fabulous trainer, but its very different to what I usually do.

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The Horrible Bosses star continued to say, "I love The Class by Taryn Toomey, [which is a yoga-based strength class also described as a cathartic mind-body experience]. Its like a massive moving meditation thats therapeutic and physical it ticks all the boxes. Its 75-minutes long and its a pretty powerful experience," she said.

Aside from her personal training sessions and The Class, Jen has a few at-home workout tips for those among us who are too busy to make it to a group-training class. Ill run on a treadmill and do intervals for 45 minutes just to get a really good sweat and burn going, she continued, adding that along with getting her heart rate up, she finds a calming, rejuvenating solace in infrared saunas. You can buy portable ones online, she said, but I do think they have them in spas now. Its like jumping into an infrared sleeping bag for an hour, which does so much good for your cellular rejuvenation and detoxification.

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Appearing in movie after movie (and, sometimes, bikini after bikini), Jen maintains a regular diet thats loaded with the kind of good-for-you foods that all of us probably have in our very own kitchens and pantries. I was never a breakfast person, so Ive had to make myself become a breakfast person because its such an important meal, she said. Usually a smoothie would be my best go-to in the morning because its simple and easy. In the cooler months, I love oatmeal with cinnamon and bananas.

Her typical lunch involves eating protein with salad or vegies, followed by a snack like an apple and a soup. Dinner is much of the same for Jen, but she wont deny herself a treat afterwards! I treat myself to a frozen yogurt for dessert if I want to have a sweet fix, she said. I do a little frozen yogurt, but Im not a sweet person. My downfall is savory: its chips, its cheese all of the salty and savory stuff. I mean, I can look at a chocolate cake and do nothing with it; it doesnt affect me in any way. Lucky for her!

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Mindfulness, it truly is a powerful thing (trust us, science says so), which is something Zen Jen can certainly attest to, with this perpetually busy celebrity admitting that understanding why you work out is imperative for achieving the results of the workout you choose to do.

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Its vital to exercise not just to stay strong, to not become lazy. Its such a game-changer if I have an injury and I cant sweat or move my body, I just start to feel such a difference in my mood, she said, explaining that exercising extends far further than solely focusing on your abs or core. I dont know what it is, but theres something about meditation that gives me such a charge in the morning for me to take on the day things will just roll off me in a much easier way.

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Though there is still debate surrounding the so-called French Paradox, a new study draws a concrete connection between a component of red wine and anti-aging effects.

A recent study from The Journals of Gerontologyrevealed that resveratrol, a compound found in the skin of red grapes and in red wine, shares many of the same benefits as a drug prescribed to fight Type 2 diabetes called metformin.

Specifically, both resveratrol and metformin have many of the same neuroprotective benefits that come from a low-calorie diet and exercise. Additionally, study researchers found that the wine component, resveratrol, also preserves muscle fibers during aging.

We all slow down as we get older, Gregorio Valdez, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute who worked on the study, toldKnowridge Science Report.

We work on identifying molecular changes that slow down motor deficits that occur with aging. I believe that we are getting closer to tapping into mechanisms to slow age-induced degeneration of neuronal circuits.

To test the effect of resveratrol, researchers treated older mice with the compound for one year and studied their movements. Just as the optimum diet and exercise can improve muscle preservation and aging effects, Valdez found that resveratrol has similar benefits in the test mice.

Though resveratrol was effective for the study, Valdez says theres no way anybody could drink enough red wine to yield similar results. In fact, right now that much resveratrol in your system might not even be safe.

These studies are in mice and I would caution anyone from blasting their bodies with resveratrol in any form, Valdez said.

In wine, resveratrol is in such small amounts you could not drink enough of it in your life to have the benefits we found in mice given resveratrol.

Well, thats disappointing. Nonetheless, there are still other studies that link red wine to better cholesteroland tofighting obesity, so there are still plenty of reasons to pop that cork.

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Rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer tossed the game-winning touchdown pass to help lift the Browns over the Saints in last weeks preseason opener.

Defensive end and No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick Myles Garrett had a tackle-for-loss and hurry that forced New Orelans off the field.

Briean Boddy-Calhouns goal line stop on fourth down sent Clevelands sidelines into a frenzy. Former practice squad member Trevon Coleys strip-sack set up a Browns touchdown.

All of these things were what second-year head coach Hue Jackson described as small victories in awide-ranging interview with MMQBs Peter King.

Those little wins, he said, ultimately can add up to something big.I think when we talk about it, its making sure that our players the guys who are our core players lets find a way to let them have personal success, Jackson told King on a podcast following a 20-14 win against New Orleans.We don't know what its going to look like as a team. We know where we want our team to look like and be, but if players can start getting personal wins, then they turn into unit wins and then they turn into team wins.

Thosecomments echo what Browns owner Jimmy Haslamsaid while meeting with the news media earlier this month.

Wins and losses are a part of it theres no doubt about that but I think its how our team performs, how do we come back and do we win close games? he said.

Do we come from behind and win a game? Do we beat a good team? Do we win a game on the road? Are our younger players getting better? Both Hue and (chief strategy officer) Paul (DePodesta) talk about small wins.

After a 1-15 campaign in 2016 that saw one of the leagues youngest rosters struggle, the Browns are poised to improve this fall with a significantly retooled roster.

They re-signed key players like Jamie Collins Sr., Joel Bitonio and Christian Kirksey, fortified their offensive line in free agency and curated a promising NFL Draft class that includes Garrett and two more first-round picks in do-everything safety Jabrill Peppers and tight end David Njoku.

Jackson reflected on his first year with the Browns and why hes optimistic Cleveland is heading down a path that'll help it snap a string of disappointing seasons.

We have to get this done. That's something Dee and Jimmy and our executive team talk about all the time. We have to get this right, Jackson said. There's not a thought that we won't, that we have to for our fans, for the players, for this organization, this once-proud organization that people need to look at and say, 'Hey these guys are doing something great.'

"But at the same time, we understand that it doesn't just happen overnight, that there's a process to this and I know sometimes that's a hard word for (the fans) because I think theyve heard that so much. They want to see results.

Jackson believes last weeks win regardless of the stakes was a good example of what happens when small victories add up to something more.

Its small victories like tonight that says to them, OK, things are turning.' Because a year ago, we probably wouldnt have won that game there at the end and probably couldnt finish it that way and come out with the victory and we did regardless of who was out there playing or whatever it was," he said.

That was significant improvement from last year to this year. So hopefully they can see the small victories that are happening within the organization and theyll see that those small victories are turning into bigger victories and will hopefully one day turn into championships.

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As a spokesman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Mr. Lewis raised vast sums for charity; as a filmmaker of great personal force and technical skill, he made many contributions to the industry, including the invention in 1960 of a device the video assist, which allowed directors to review their work immediately on the set still in common use.

A mercurial personality who could flip from naked neediness to towering rage, Mr. Lewis seemed to contain multitudes, and he explored all of them. His ultimate object of contemplation was his own contradictory self, and he turned his obsession with fragmentation, discontinuity and the limits of language into a spectacle that enchanted children, disturbed adults and fascinated postmodernist critics.

Jerry Lewis was born on March 16, 1926, in Newark. Most sources, including his 1982 autobiography, Jerry Lewis: In Person, give his birth name as Joseph Levitch. But Shawn Levy, author of the exhaustive 1996 biography King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis, unearthed a birth record that gave his first name as Jerome.

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His parents, Danny and Rae Levitch, were entertainers his father a song-and-dance man, his mother a pianist who used the name Lewis when they appeared in small-time vaudeville and at Catskills resort hotels. The Levitches were frequently on the road and often left Joey, as he was called, in the care of Raes mother and her sisters. The experience of being passed from home to home left Mr. Lewis with an enduring sense of insecurity and, as he observed, a desperate need for attention and affection.

An often bored student at Union Avenue School in Irvington, N.J., he began organizing amateur shows with and for his classmates, while yearning to join his parents on tour. During the winter of 1938-39, his father landed an extended engagement at the Hotel Arthur in Lakewood, N.J., and Joey was allowed to go along. Working with the daughter of the hotels owners, he created a comedy act in which they lip-synced to popular recordings.

By his 16th birthday, Joey had dropped out of Irvington High and was aggressively looking for work, having adopted the professional name Jerry Lewis to avoid confusion with the nightclub comic Joe E. Lewis. He performed his record act solo between features at movie theaters in northern New Jersey, and soon moved on to burlesque and vaudeville.

In 1944 a 4F classification kept him out of the war he was performing at the Downtown Theater in Detroit when he met Patti Palmer, a 23-year-old singer. Three months later they were married, and on July 31, 1945, while Patti was living with Jerrys parents in Newark and he was performing at a Baltimore nightclub, she gave birth to the first of the couples six sons, Gary, who in the 1960s had a series of hit records with his band Gary Lewis and the Playboys. The couple divorced in 1980.

Between his first date with Ms. Palmer and the birth of his first son, Mr. Lewis had met Dean Martin, a promising young crooner from Steubenville, Ohio. Appearing on the same bill at the Glass Hat nightclub in Manhattan, the skinny kid from New Jersey was dazzled by the sleepy-eyed singer, who seemed to be everything he was not: handsome, self-assured and deeply, unshakably cool.

When they found themselves on the same bill again at another Manhattan nightclub, the Havana-Madrid, in March 1946, they started fooling around in impromptu sessions after the evenings last show. Their antics earned the notice of Billboard magazine, whose reviewer wrote, Martin and Lewis do an afterpiece that has all the makings of a sock act, using showbiz slang for a successful show.

Mr. Lewis must have remembered those words when he was booked that summer at the 500 Club in Atlantic City. When the singer on the program dropped out, he pushed the clubs owner to hire Mr. Martin to fill the spot. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Martin cobbled together a routine based on their after-hours high jinks at the Havana-Madrid, with Mr. Lewis as a bumbling busboy who kept breaking in on Mr. Martin dropping trays, hurling food, cavorting like a monkey without ever ruffling the singers sang-froid.

The act was a success. Before the weeks end, they were drawing crowds and winning mentions from Broadway columnists. That September, they returned to the Havana-Madrid in triumph.

Bookings at bigger and better clubs in New York and Chicago followed, and by the summer of 1948 they had reached the pinnacle, headlining at the Copacabana on the Upper East Side of Manhattan while playing one show a night at the 6,000-seat Roxy Theater in Times Square.

The phenomenal rise of Martin and Lewis was like nothing show business had seen before. Partly this was because of the rise of mass media after the war, when newspapers, radio and the emerging medium of television came together to create a new kind of instant celebrity. And partly it was because four years of war and its difficult aftermath were finally lifting, allowing America to indulge a long-suppressed taste for silliness. But primarily it was the unusual chemical reaction that occurred when Martin and Lewis were side by side.

Mr. Lewiss shorthand definition for their relationship was sex and slapstick. But much more was going on: a dialectic between adult and infant, assurance and anxiety, bitter experience and wide-eyed innocence that generated a powerful image of postwar America, a gangly young country suddenly dominant on the world stage.

Among the audience members at the Copacabana was the producer Hal Wallis, who had a distribution deal through Paramount Pictures. Other studios were interested more so after Martin and Lewis began appearing on live television but it was Mr. Wallis who signed them to a five-year contract.

He started them off slowly, slipping them into a low-budget project already in the pipeline. Based on a popular radio show, My Friend Irma (1949) starred Marie Wilson as a ditsy blonde and Diana Lynn as her levelheaded roommate, with Martin and Lewis providing comic support. The film did well enough to generate a sequel, My Friend Irma Goes West (1950), but it was not until At War With the Army (1951), an independent production filmed outside Mr. Walliss control, that the team took center stage.

This group of films demonstrates the breadth of Lewiss talent as an actor, comedian and director.

At War With the Army codified the relationship that ran through all 13 subsequent Martin and Lewis films, positing the pair as unlikely pals whose friendship might be tested by trouble with money or women (usually generated by Mr. Martins character), but who were there for each other in the end.

The films were phenomenally successful, and their budgets quickly grew. Some were remakes of Paramount properties Bob Hopes 1940 hit The Ghost Breakers, for example, became Scared Stiff (1953) while other projects were more adventurous.

Thats My Boy (1951), The Stooge (1953) and The Caddy (1953) approached psychological drama with their forbidding father figures and suggestions of sibling rivalry; Mr. Lewis had a hand in the writing of each. Artists and Models (1955) and Hollywood or Bust (1956) were broadly satirical looks at American popular culture under the authorial hand of the director Frank Tashlin, who brought a bold graphic style and a flair for wild sight gags to his work. For Mr. Tashlin, Mr. Lewis became a live-action extension of the anarchic characters, like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, he had worked with as a director of Warner Bros. cartoons.

Mr. Tashlin also functioned as a mentor to Mr. Lewis, who was fascinated with the technical side of filmmaking. Mr. Lewis made 16-millimeter sound home movies and by 1949 was enlisting celebrity friends for short comedies with titles like How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border. These were amateur efforts, but Mr. Lewis was soon confident enough to advise veteran directors like George Marshall (Money From Home) and Norman Taurog (Living It Up) on questions of staging. With Mr. Tashlin, he found a director both sympathetic to his style of comedy and technically adept.

But as his artistic aspirations grew and his control over the films in which he appeared increased, Mr. Lewiss relationship with Mr. Martin became strained. As wildly popular as the team remained, Mr. Martin had come to resent Mr. Lewiss dominant role in shaping their work and spoke of reviving his solo career as a singer. Mr. Lewis felt betrayed by the man he still worshiped as a role model, and by the time filming began on Hollywood or Bust they were barely speaking.

After a farewell performance at the Copacabana on July 25, 1956, 10 years to the day after they had first appeared together in Atlantic City, Mr. Martin and Mr. Lewis went their separate ways.

For Mr. Lewis, an unexpected success mitigated the trauma of the breakup. His recording of Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody, belted in a style that suggested Al Jolson, became a Top 10 hit, and the album on which it appeared, Jerry Lewis Just Sings, climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard chart, outselling anything his former partner had released.

Reassured that his public still loved him, Mr. Lewis returned to filmmaking with the low-budget, semidramatic The Delicate Delinquent and then shifted into overdrive for a series of personal appearances, beginning at the Sands in Las Vegas and culminating with a four-week engagement at the Palace in New York. He signed a contract with NBC for a series of specials and renewed his relationship with the Muscular Dystrophy Association a charity that he and Mr. Martin had long supported by hosting a 19-hour telethon.

Mr. Lewis made three uninspired films to complete his obligation to Hal Wallis. He saved his creative energies for the films he produced himself. The first three of those films Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958), The Geisha Boy (1958) and Cinderfella (1960) were directed by Mr. Tashlin. After that, finally ready to assume complete control, Mr. Lewis persuaded Paramount to take a chance on The Bellboy (1960), a virtually plotless hommage to silent-film comedy that he wrote, directed and starred in, playing a hapless employee of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

It was the beginning of Mr. Lewiss most creative period. During the next five years, he directed five more films of remarkable stylistic assurance, including The Ladies Man (1961), with its huge multistory set of a womens boardinghouse, and, most notably, The Nutty Professor (1963), a variation on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in which Mr. Lewis appeared as a painfully shy chemistry professor and his dark alter ego, a swaggering nightclub singer.

With their themes of fragmented identity and their experimental approach to sound, color and narrative structure, Mr. Lewiss films began to attract the serious consideration of iconoclastic young critics in France. At a time when American film was still largely dismissed by American critics as purely commercial and devoid of artistic interest, Mr. Lewiss work was held up as a prime example of a personal filmmaker functioning happily within the studio system.

The Nutty Professor, a study in split personality that is as disturbing as it is hilarious, is probably the most honored and analyzed of Mr. Lewiss films. (It was also his personal favorite.) For some critics, the opposition between the helpless, infantile Professor Julius Kelp and the coldly manipulative lounge singer Buddy Love represented a spiteful revision of the old Martin-and-Lewis dynamic. But Buddy seems more pertinently a projection of Mr. Lewiss darkest fears about himself: a version of the distant, unloving father whom Mr. Lewis had never managed to please as a child, and whom he both despised and desperately wanted to be.

The Nutty Professor transcends mere pathology by placing that division within the cultural context of the Kennedy-Hefner-Sinatra era. Buddy Love was what the midcentury American male dreamed of becoming; Julius Kelp was what, deep inside, he suspected he actually was.

The Nutty Professor was a hit. But the studio era was coming to an end, Mr. Lewiss audience was growing old, and by the time he and Paramount parted ways in 1965 his career was in crisis. He tried casting himself in more mature, sophisticated roles for example, as a prosperous commercial artist in Three on a Couch, which he directed for Columbia in 1966. But the public was unconvinced.

He seemed more himself in the multi-role chase comedy The Big Mouth (1967) and the World War II farce Which Way to the Front? (1970). But his blend of physical comedy and pathos was quickly going out of style in a Hollywood defined by the countercultural irony of The Graduate and MASH. After The Day the Clown Cried, his audacious attempt to direct a comedy-drama set in a Nazi concentration amp, collapsed in litigation in 1972, Mr. Lewis was absent from films for eight years. In that dark period, he struggled with an addiction to the pain killer Percodan.

Hardly Working, an independent production that Mr. Lewis directed in Florida, was released in Europe in 1980 and in the United States in 1981. It referred to Mr. Lewiss marginalized position by casting him as an unemployed circus clown who finds fulfillment in a mundane job with the post office. For Roger Ebert, writing in The Chicago Sun-Times, Hardly Working was one of the worst movies ever to achieve commercial release in this country, but the film found moderate success in the United States and Europe and has since earned passionate defenders.

A follow-up in 1983, Smorgasbord (also known as Cracking Up), proved a misfire, and Mr. Lewis never directed another feature film. He did, however, enjoy a revival as an actor, thanks largely to his powerful performance in a dramatic role in Martin Scorseses The King of Comedy (1982) as a talk-show host kidnapped by an aspiring comedian (Robert De Niro) desperate to become a celebrity. He appeared in the television series Wiseguy in 1988 and 1989 as a garment manufacturer threatened by the mob, and was memorable in character roles in Emir Kusturicas Arizona Dream (1993) and Peter Chelsoms Funny Bones (1995). Mr. Lewis played Mr. Applegate (a.k.a. the Devil) in a Broadway revival of the musical Damn Yankees in 1995 and later took the show on an international tour.

Although he retained a preternaturally youthful appearance for many years, Mr. Lewis had a series of serious illnesses in his later life, including prostate cancer, pulmonary fibrosis and two heart attacks. Drug treatments caused his weight to balloon alarmingly, though he recovered enough to continue performing well into the new millennium. He was appearing in one-man shows as recently as 2016.

Through it all, Mr. Lewis continued his charity work, serving as national chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and, beginning in 1966, hosting the associations annual Labor Day weekend telethon. Although some advocates for the rights of the disabled criticized the associations Jerrys Kids campaign as condescending, the telethon raised about $2 billion during the more than 40 years he was host.

For reasons that remain largely unexplained but were apparently related to a disagreement with the associations president, Gerald C. Weinberg, the 2010 telethon was Mr. Lewiss last he had been scheduled to make an appearance on the 2011 telethon but did not and he had no further involvement with the charity until 2016, when he lent his support via a promotional video. (The telethon was shortened and eventually discontinued.)

During the 1976 telethon, Frank Sinatra staged an on-air reunion between Mr. Lewis and Mr. Martin, to the visible discomfort of both men. A more lasting reconciliation came in 1987, when Mr. Lewis attended the funeral of Mr. Martins oldest son, Dean Paul Martin Jr., a pilot in the California Air National Guard who had been killed in a crash. They continued to speak occasionally until Mr. Martin died in 1995.

In 2005, Mr. Lewis collaborated with James Kaplan on Dean and Me (A Love Story), a fond memoir of his years with Mr. Martin in which he placed most of the blame for their breakup on himself. Among Mr. Lewiss other books was The Total Film-Maker, a compendium of his lectures at the film school of the University of Southern California, where he taught, beginning in 1967.

In 1983, Mr. Lewis married SanDee Pitnick, and in 1992 their daughter, Danielle Sara, was born. Besides his wife and daughter, survivors include his sons Christopher, Scott, Gary and Anthony, and several grandchildren.

Although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences never honored Mr. Lewis for his film work, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his charitable activity in 2009. His many other honors included two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame one for his movie work, the other for television and an induction into the Lgion dHonneur, awarded by the French government in 2006.

In 2015, the Library of Congress announced that it had acquired Mr. Lewiss personal archives. In a statement, he said, Knowing that the Library of Congress was interested in acquiring my lifes work was one of the biggest thrills of my life.

Mr. Lewis was officially recognized as a towering figure in cinema at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The festivals tribute to him included the screening of a preliminary cut of Max Rose, Mr. Lewiss first movie in almost 20 years, in which he starred as a recently widowed jazz pianist in search of answers about his past. The film did not have its United States premiere until 2016, when it was shown as part of a Lewis tribute at the Museum of Modern Art. Also in 2016, he appeared briefly as the father of Nicolas Cages character in the crime drama The Trust.

In 2012, Mr. Lewis directed a stage musical in Nashville based on The Nutty Professor. The show, with a score by Marvin Hamlisch and book and lyrics by Rupert Holmes, never made it to Broadway, but Mr. Lewis relished the challenge of directing for the stage, a first for him.

Theres something about the risk, the courage that it takes to face the risk, he told The New York Times. Im not going to get greatness unless I have to go at it with fear and uncertainty.

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