The secret to a long life

Herbert Stern is 106. His advice for living such a long life? He "did everything [he] shouldn’t do.”

The former US Army colonel is the oldest living graduate of the Military Academy at West Point, and fought in WWII before retiring and starting a family. The senior still drives, shops, and cooks himself two meals a day; he turned 106 on Christmas Eve.

• “[My military class was] very close because we were the last class to graduate before the war,” Herbert told the Washington Post. “I’m the last one left now, but I still hear from children of my military friends. It’s very gratifying.”