When you stay at an all-inclusive resort or sail a cruise, the unending supply of sun, food and drink not only add pounds. It also makes you vulnerable to food-related illnesses. Keeping healthy while being inundated by all the temptations isn’t easy, but it can be done. 

1. Diet: Maintain your normal at-home healthy food and booze habits. Stay away from junk food, and have your three moderate meals (no second helpings!) at the same time each day. If you’re a calorie-counter, keep tabs on what you eat. If all-you-can-grab buffet breakfast and lunch totalled 1,500 or more calories, go easy at dinner. Just salad, cup of tea and fruit. Or make breakfast your skinny meal.

Just before your travel4seniors.com editor was immersed in soothing warm water, he enjoyed this fantastic wide-angle view of downtown Tokyo.

If the TSA proposal goes through, fees will will be higher for security check-ins. Passengers now pay $5.60 per flight leg for the pat-down routine, and it will be raised $1 for each. Of course, that will be just one more add-on to your ticket that makes the advertised $99.99 bargain flight actually cost twice as much.

Senior Guest Editor MJL, Tombstone AZ: We’re happily retired now in a snug desert home, surrounded by tall Saguaro cactus and other seniors. Except for the Old West amusement park downtown, there’s not much change of scenery. But at our advanced age age, that lifestyle fits us just right.

A few years ago, when my working days were ending, we considered buying an RV. Not one of those cramped little campers, but a truck-sized luxury home on wheels. We wanted to travel, and having our comfortable home along with us was a fun idea at the time.