As the oldest person in the world, Henrikje van Andel-Schipper attributed her longevity to a slice of pickled herring and a tumbler of orange juice every day. If pressed, she'd say tartly that "breathing" also helped prolong life.
When this Dutch dowager died in 2005 at age 115, researchers discovered that she had almost none of the chronic physical or mental ailments associated with aging, according to a postmortem medical assessment published last month in the journal Neurobiology of Aging. She supported herself until she was 105. Up to her death, she was more alert and engaged than people half her age, cognitive testing showed. Indeed, when the anatomists actually counted her neurons, they discovered she had the brain of a woman 50 years younger.
" She was unbelievable," recalls neuroscientist Gert Holstege at the Groningen University Medical Center in the Netherlands, who documented her unusual well-being.
Whatever the virtues of fish and fruit juice, the secret of her longevity may have been hidden among her genes. Ascetic health habits apparently only take you so far; a surprising number of supercentenarians smoked, ignored their cholesterol and avoided exercise, research shows.
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (2008).
Many people attribute their longevity to the healthy life; they do exercises or practice sports, they usually eat healthily , they do not have addictions and most of the time they are looking for things to prolong their lives, though, there are many other who do not care about it, that´s why people smoke or eat fat food, also, people drink alcohol until to be drunk and they do many other things that damage them. Finally, being honest I can´t say that if you have a healthy way of life you will extend it, but scientifically, almost every person over 100 who has talked about his longevity´s experiences , has had a healthy way of life.
My opinion.
Mirla Duran
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