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Eating right and exercising can help preserve your health as you age. For Prime Time Focus

Eating right and exercising can help preserve your health as you age. — Photot: Freddie Jones/Alamy

Alyne Ellis talks with Andy Carter, the head of the Visiting Nurse Associations of America, about how important it is to eat right and exercise regularly to stay fit and healthy: The sooner you start — building that strong foundation for independence in your later years — the better.

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