I read the book "Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond" by Chris Crowly and Dr. Harry Lodge. It was a funny, easy to read guide to health. Much of it was common sense. Here are Dr. Lodge's 7 rules:
1) Exercise 6 days/week for the rest of your life.
2) Do serious aerobic exercise 4 days/week for the rest of your life.
3) Do serious strength training with weights 2 days/week for the rest of your life.
4) Spend less than you make.
5) Quit eating crap.
6) Care.
7) Connect and commit.
I liked their suggestion about kedging, which is defined as moving a ship by hauling on a rope which is fastened to an anchor which has been dropped some distance from it. When the wind has left your sails and you need a kedge to get you moving again, take an exercise vacation (biking, hiking, cross-country skiing) or enter a race or find something/ANYTHING that will keep you going. Plan your kedge for when you are becalmed by life.
"Do one thing every day that scares you." Eleanor Roosevelt
Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.
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