How to Stay Young

However, a healthy diet and a high-intensity exercise program are the next best things. Used together you can slow down the cellular aging process by 50%. A study by Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger of Stanford followed more than 17,000 Harvard graduates for more than 25 years. He found that burning at least 2,000 calories a week through exercise adds a year or more to your life. (1)

Retirement – the New Puberty

Old wisdom advised older adults to ‘take it easy’ and not push themselves. Now we know that ‘taking it easy’ is the perfect prescription for a short and miserable ride through the ‘golden years.’

If you want to be independent, active, and feel good through the second half of your life you have to exercise and eat right. The body is designed to stay active. If you aren’t active you will begin to degenerate. The diseases that doctors used to assume came with old age have turned out to be the diseases of an inactive lifestyle. You don’t have to spend twenty years of your life feeling bad and going senile. There is a better way.