Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye.. and science
(Photo / CNN) Sat, 3 Jul 2021, 10:03AM
If you were a kid raised anytime between the 1930s and the 1970s or raised by someone who was raised then chances are good that you grew up with the idea that spinach was a muscle builder par excellence.
We owe that notion to a comic-strip cartoonist named Elzie Crisler Segar, who created a character that he based on a rough-edged, hard-drinking local from his Illinois hometown. Segar christened the character Popeye, a sailor who debuted in a strip in 1929.
By 1933, when he began to appear as one of the lead characters in an animated cartoon series called Thimble Theatre, Popeye was getting instant strength from spinach.
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UKTV has acquired a new documentary,
Myleene Klass: Miscarriage & Me (pictured above), for its W premium channel to air in the fall.
The one-hour doc will focus on the British singer as she opens up about her four miscarriages, with the goal of shattering the taboo that typically surrounds that type of pregnancy loss.
Mylene Klass: Miscarriage & Me was commissioned by deputy director of commissioning and head of factual, Hilary Rosen and ordered for W by channel director Adam Collings.
“Miscarriage is a subject that has been shrouded in taboo and secrecy for far too long. We are so grateful to Myleene for her highly personal, raw and honest examination of its lifelong legacy and we hope this film can spark a bigger conversation,” said Rosen in a release.