Remember when rock stars used to be bad examples? Especially in matters of health? But Anthony Kiedis, who turns 50 this week, represents the new paradigm of the anti-geezer, middle-age-defying rock god. He’s buffer than buff, held up as the model of healthy living by Men’s Fitness magazine, and very likely to outlive the cockroaches that will outlive the apocalypse.

‘Accept the challenge’

Asked about approaching the big five-oh, Kiedis recently told England’s Q magazine: “I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s. Discovering surfing at this stage of my life is definitely going to keep me active till the day I die. So, yeah, I accept the challenge…”

‘Quick fix’

In his autobiography, Scar Tissue, Kiedis pointed out the irony of how, in the ’80s and ’90s, he was maintaining a lot of the staples of keeping his body healthy while at the same time ravaging it with a level of drug abuse that might have easily killed someone less fit. But by the time his book was published in 2004, he was able to write, “I spent most of my life looking for the quick fix and the deep kick. I shot drugs under freeway off-ramps with Mexican gang-bangers and in thousand-dollar-a-day hotel suites. Now I sip vitamin-infused water and seek out wild, as opposed to farm-raised, salmon.”

So if you’re looking to have Kiedis’ bod at 50, to recap, here’s a short list of tips: chlorine-free swimming, drinking lots of water in the morning, surfing, vegetables, salmon whose lineage has been carefully tracked, acupuncture, Kaballah instruction, more swimming, and—for the love of Flea—dinner before 6. Also, coming up with good genes might not hurt. This is not to neglect the importance of exercise equipment, especially when there’s no ocean around.

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Source: Yahoo News

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