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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: EC on April 19, 2017, 11:18:09 am
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How to be the oldest person in the world? Don’t drink rum, according to 117-year-old Jamaican Violet-Mosse Brown, recently dubbed the world’s oldest human.
Brown — otherwise known as Aunt V — was born March 10, 1900, which is 67 years before Jamaica was founded. Good genes seem to run in the family; Brown’s son is 97.
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness congratulated Brown on the achievement.
According to a local Jamaican newspaper, The Gleaner, there is no secret formula to Brown’s long life. “Really and truly, when people ask what me eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken, and I don’t drink rum and them things,” Brown told The Gleaner.
Raised Christian, she has been a music teacher and church organist for over 80 years. After her husband’s death in 1997, she took over his responsibilities and became a record-keeper for the local cemetery, a job she continued well after her 100th birthday.
More: http://wgno.com/2017/04/17/theres-a-new-worlds-oldest-woman/
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...which is 67 years before Jamaica was founded.
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That's what I like about the oldest women in the world. When she dies there is another one right there to take her place.
All right All right All right.
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Poor woman just lost her 97 year old son: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Eldest-child-of-world-s-oldest-person-dies-at-97