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I am in control of how I age, and I am in control of my health.

You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.

I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

As you get older, your body doesn't hold up as much.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

We assume that healthy habits are a good idea, but in and of themselves, they are not the reason we're going to be active at age 95 or 100. The body works in more complex ways.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.