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The unscientific diet of centenarians

06.01.2017

American scientists told what kind of food centenarians prefer. It turned out that their dietary habits do not coincide with the advice of nutritionists.

Experts have found that residents of the so-called "blue zones" or places on the planet with the highest life expectancy do not always follow the advice of doctors. Many of them eat meat, eggs, drink coffee and even whiskey.

For example, Emma Morano, who is already 117 years old, has been eating raw eggs every morning since the age of twenty, and the diet of the Japanese Miso Okawa, born in 1898, regularly contains ramen noodles, beef and sushi. American Susanna Mushatt Jones, who lived to be 116 years old and died in 2016, regularly ate bacon and eggs during her lifetime.

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