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Ten Food Choices Regularly Made By 100+ Year Olds
Want to live to a ripe old age?
Britain’s oldest woman Florence Baldwin, who has recently celebrated her 113th birthday, credits her long life to a daily fried egg sandwich.
And while medicine can tell you exactly what shortens your life span (smoking and being overweight come to mind) researchers have for along time struggled to identify things that contribute to living longer.
Eating healthy can certainly help but just what types of foods should you choose? And can what you eat really impact how long you live?
So, a good start might be to look over the list below which includes ten different food choices revealed by centenarian’s when asked about the secret to their longevity.
1) Herring and orange juice – is the recommendation from 115-year-old Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper. The herring is a great source of omega 3 fatty acids known to be beneficial to your heart and cardiovascular system. A glass of orange juice provides vitamin C and antioxidants.
2) Vegetables – A variety of these healthy foods cut the risk of cancer and heart disease, and are a regular part of the menu for 120-year-old Mariam Amash. Green veggies are the staple of a good diet and offer a lot of key vitamins and minerals like iron, carotene and dietary fiber.
3) Custard cakes – might seem out of place on a list like this, but 114-year-old Mitoyo Kawate swears by this very sweet treat and who can argue with her? Experts do concede that as a part of a healthy, balanced diet, a few sweets now and then aren’t generally troublesome and can make a stricter diet in other places easier to maintain.
4) Alcohol – 113-year-old Lucy d’Abreu drink in moderation, and alcohol in moderation has been shown to bring down the risk of heart disease. However, alcohol consumption has also been connected to increased cancer risk and too much drinking is known to bring a variety of health complications.
5) Sausage in bread – was the treat of rural Ukranian Hryhoriy Nestor, though dietary wisdom balks at eating processed foods. Experts insist such foods should only be part of a balanced diet that includes lots of vegetables and plenty of regular exercise.
6) Bread, dripping, salt – Perhaps living to over 100 came in spite of this highly unhealthy diet choice. Still Yorkshire woman Ada Mason swears this food is the secret to having celebrated 111 birthdays.
7) Porridge – Scotswoman Annie Knight, 111 years old, starts her mornings by eating this traditional Scottish breakfast, giving her body a regular dose of fiber. Adding milk makes porridge full of other nutrients like calcium too.
Boiled rice and chicken – is a fantastic source of starch and low fat protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals. Yukichi Chuganji, At age 114, who doesn’t like vegetables, continues to enjoy this comination regularly.
9) Cottage cheese – a good source of calcium, and other essential nutrients, important to your bones, teeth and body health, this food is the favorite of the world’s oldest woman, Sakhan Dosova, who has just reached an astonishing 130 years old.
10) Donkey milk – while you won’t find this in the dairy cases at your local grocery store, 116-year-old Maria Esther de Capovilla, swore the milk she regularly drank as a youngster is the reason she’s lived so long.
Before you stock up on some of the more unconventional “goodies”, it’s critical to note that what these people eat may only be part of the reason they live so long.
Good genes certainly play a role, as does the things these people did early in life.
Perhaps what happened while their mothers were carrying them, or a lack of stress in early life could be part of the picture.
And one final “food for thought”, Dr. de Grey, whose Methuselah Foundation is funding research into regenerative medicine for aging, says those in the over 100 club have in common, “If there’s one thing we can say about centenarians, it’s that nothing bothers them.
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