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felt when you were fatter and your clothes were tight. Feeling slim, positive and liking yourself is more important than eating chocolate every day. When you’re 90 you can eat whatever you like, whenever you like and as many of those trigger foods as you like – if you can remember what they are, that is!

While life expectancy averages 82.8 years for women and 78.4 years for men, many people remain healthy only until 65 because the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke and dementia rises from then on, leaving many facing the last years of their lives in a state of ill health. That’s why increasing numbers of scientists are focusing on ‘health span’ and looking at ways to increase those healthier years.

Keep your body as fit and strong as possible with exercise to stave off pain and stiffness. Check out gyms and what your local authority offers and don’t imagine you will be the oldest one there – you won’t be.

Exercise corrects your posture. Do you ever catch a glimpse of yourself and think, ‘Who is that round-shouldered, grumpy looking old person?’ The first stage is an almost imperceptible slump of the shoulders, mainly when you’re tired, which soon becomes your normal stance and causes your head to poke forward. Imagine someone has taken hold of your hair and is gently pulling your head upwards towards the ceiling.

Grow tall, lengthen your neck and pull your shoulders back and down