What 100 year old chose to eat

Do you really 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 although research can tell you what shortens your life span, like smoking and being overweight, they have struggled to identify those things that contribute to living longer.

Eating healthy helps of course, but just what foods should you choose?

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 secret of 115-year-old Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, the herring is a good source of omega 3 fatty acids known to be beneficial to your heart and cardiovascular system. Her glass of orange juice a day provides vitamin C and a whole load of 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.

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 in moderation – This is the secret of 113-year-old Lucy d’Abreu. A few drinks has been shown to lower the potential risk of heart disease. However, alcohol intake has been connected to cancer and too much is known to bring a variety of health complications. Moderation is key.

5) Sausage in bread – was the extravagance of rural Ukranian Hryhoriy Nestor, though conventional wisdom balks at eating processed meat doing so hasn’t hurt this still active elder. Experts insist such foods should only be part of a balanced diet that includes lots of veggies 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 every day eating this traditional Scottish breakfast. It gives her body a dose of fiber, and 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 – 116-year-old Maria Esther de Capovilla, swears this milk, which 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 their mothers did while they carried these children, or a lack of stress in early life could be part of the picture. No one knows for sure.

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.

Next – just head on over to the Daily Health Bulletin for more information on the 10 foods eaten for longevity, plus for a limited time get 5 free fantastic health reports. Click here to view an automated video on this longevity diet study.

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