Remember: sex by yourself or with a partner burns calories, keeps you limber, can lighten your mood, relaxes you, keeps your endorphins going, helps keep your brain and sex organs from atrophying, and studies show, adds to a healthier, longer life. It may be the best exercise around. It might also help to add one or more of the ones listed below from Harvard Medical School.

Whether you’re 9 or 90, abundant evidence shows exercise can enhance your health and well-being. But for many people, sedentary pastimes, such as watching TV, surfing the Internet, or playing computer and video games, have replaced more active pursuits. Millions of Americans simply aren’t moving enough to meet the minimum threshold for good health — that is, burning at least 700 to 1,000 calories a week through physical pursuits. The benefits of exercise may sound too good to be true, but decades of solid science confirm that exercise improves health and can extend your life.

It’s the start of the New Year and almost everyone over 50 is dieting. With added years, it’s so easy to gain those holiday pounds and so much harder to lose them. So, you might as well have some fun along the way and achieve multiple goals. Dr Dorree offers some kitchen to bedroom savories that are not only considered healthy foods but may be sex starters as well. Eaten in moderation, they may even help keep you slim, or at least some sexy exercise may help burn off those holiday calories.