3 hours ago, patman30 said:

You are what you eat

so you are calling me a pussy - 555

The body is going to age no matter what.  It’s what you do during your lifetime to keep your body in the best possible condition.  According to any limitations of course. 
As for a persons mindset.  You need to do activities and thinking to keep your mind active. Drinking booze all the time and being miserable isn’t going to cut it. 

I noticed years ago how my friends also approaching retirement, though a decade younger than me, gradually bent themselves over at the shoulders as if they were preparing for a part as the aging grand dad.  It was like they were following a script.  Slow down for the sixties.  Slump into retirement.  To what extent, I wondered, do we make ourselves older?

Last night after meeting my 41 yr old TGF and flying down from Swampy to Phuket, she asked me why all the men my age looked so much older.  She knows I'm 82.  What she didn't know was that those guys were no more than 65.