Top 10 health tips for winter months

My top ten health tips for the colder months of winter:

1. Eat properly. If you don't eat properly, you get hungry, sick and overweight. That's bad for you.
2. Exercise. Lying around watching television all day makes Jack a dull boy and makes his legs shrivel up.
3. If you're tired, rest. Trying to watch television when you can hardly keep your eyes open is hard.
4. Smoke less. Of everything.
5. Drink less alcohol. Try diluting your vodka with Red Bull.
6. Drink less caffeine. Try diluting your Red Bull with vodka.
7. Top up your vitamins. Consider treating yourself to a €10 a week bottle of multi-vitamins. Or eat a 30c apple.
8. Try out herbal remedies. But don't smoke them.
9. Keep warm. Buy a coat, not a bottle of whiskey.
10. Smile. Even if you have to break rules 1, 5 and 6 to do it, smiling makes you happy. Or at least breaking rules 1, 5 and 6 will make you happy.

* Des's top ten tips for healthy living will be appearing in the February 2006 edition of Healthly Living magazine (a wholely owned subsidiary of Diageo Inc.), available from newsagents from next Monday at the bargain price of €4.95.