Chris Crowley

If you're convinced that getting older means going downhill, consider this axiom: aging is inevitable, but decay is optional. That principle is at the heart of a fascinating new book by Chris Crowley, a retired lawyer, and Henry Lodge, M.D., a New York internist who counts Crowley among his patients. The two teamed up to write Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond. In alternating chapters, Crowley and Lodge explain the seven rules of fitness, nutrition and connection that can lead to a happier, healthier life (Rule #1: Exercise six days a week for the rest of your life). The active, perpetually upbeat septuagenarian Crowley had just returned from a trip to Maine when BookPage caught up with him to find out more.