What the world’s oldest woman eats every day
November 02, 2016
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Emma Morano is 116 and for the last 90 years
she’s been eating this one food.This article originally appeared in the New
York Post.
The world’s oldest woman has cracked the
secret to her longevity: Eggs.
Emma Morano, who will turn 117 on November
27, gobbles up at least two eggs a day, and has done so for 90 years — for an
egg-streme lifetime total she says is over 100,000.
Born in 1899, Morano, of Verbania, Italy,
began eating eggs religiously when she was 20 years old, after a doctor
diagnosed her with anaemia and told her to consume two raw eggs and a cooked
one each day.Nowadays, the hard-boiled Italian eats two
eggs a day.
“And that’s it,” she told Agence-France
Press. “And cookies. But I do not eat much because I have no teeth.”
Her doctor, Carlo Bava, confirmed that his
patient didn’t follow conventional nutritional advice.
“Emma has always eaten very few vegetables,
very little fruit. When I met her, she ate three eggs per day, two raw in the
morning and then an omelette at noon, and chicken at dinner,” said
These days, Morano doesn’t eat much meat,
Bava said, “because she doesn’t like it anymore and someone told her it causes
cancer.”
And she may not even have a bite of her
birthday cake.
“The last time I ate a little, but then I did
not feel good,” she recalled.
Morano has a few more birthdays to go before
she breaks Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment’s record breaking run of 122 years.
She hasn’t left her two-room apartment for 20
years, and has outlived all her immediate family, and isn’t planning a birthday
party, but Morano expects well wishers to turn up regardless.
“People come. I don’t invite anybody but they
come. From America, Switzerland, Austria, Turin, Milan … They come from all
over to see me,” she said.
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