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Good question.
Its probably easier to list things they shouldn't be doing that are known to significantly reduce life expectancy (e.g. smoking). I would guess it would mainly be obvious things like exercise and diet, but it would be interesting to see the effects quantified.
What about vitamins/medication? Isn't Ray Kurzweil on like fifty different pills? Why isn't everyone?
And Aubrey de Grey doesn't take any. (http://www.quora.com/What-supplements-does-Aubrey-de-Grey-take-to-stay-young-if-any/answer/Aubrey-de-Grey)
Laziness and lack of information
Isn't Less Wrong supposed to be partially about counteracting those? The topic must have come up at some point in the sequences.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/a60/quantified_health_prize_results_announced/
It's unclear whether taking vitamin supplements would actually help. (See also the Quantified Health Prize post army1987 linked.)
Regarding medication, I'll add that for people over 40, aspirin seems to be a decent all-purpose death reducer. The effect's on the order of a 10% reduction in death rate after taking 75mg of aspirin daily for 5-10 years. (Don't try to take more to enhance the effect, as it doesn't seem to work. And you have to take it daily; only taking it on alternating days appears to kill the effect too.)