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First, take the positive approach, and tell him how much you love him and want him to be around. Don’t try the negative approach and tell him he eats junk and needs to fix it.

Just remind your dad that there is nothing more important than his health. Everything comes from health. Work, money, family, whatever he enjoys. He can’t have any of that without his health.

The only time to go negative: if he says there isn’t enough time, tell him that’s just terrible math. Any minutes or hours he subtracts from his day right now for health and fitness is multiplied in the months and years he would add to his life. That’s fitness math.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, taking fitness questions on reddit.

Any minutes or hours he subtracts from his day right now for health and fitness is multiplied in the months and years he would add to his life.

…wow, really well said.