“Most people do not think about this question when they are 24 years old but the choices that we make when we are young affect the quality and the length of our lives.”
This is so important. It’s hard to focus on it when you’re young, but it makes so much sense. It’s also so much easier to take care of your health your whole life than to try to change your ways at 50 or 60 or beyond.

Your point about your great-grandfather not exercising as such is also important. What is excercise but physical activity? Those who get plenty of physical activity during the course of a day without having to “exercise” or “work out” ae very fortunate (and, generally, very healthy).

In answer to your final question, I am doing nearly all of these things to stay healthy to a ripe old age, although I don’t eat honey and I don’t drink wine every day, just from time to time. And I really do need to work on taking it easy. That is not my strong suit.

I love all your sensible points with the exception of the alcohol one. I gave up drinking a while ago and now just the very occassional glass of good champagne.

If I do try anything else now, my body reacts with a headache literally within seconds – it is as if my body is telling me about how toxic this substance is for ME.

Of course other people’s reactions and tolerances will be different than mine – especially if they have been drinking all there life.

Apart from that I must apply more of point 1 – I love my food and I still tend to overeat:-)