Another one of the those "Key to a long life is..." stories

From The Daily Mail:

* Matilda Curcia credits reaching her 100th birthday to her habit of having a beer and three potato chips every night
* She and friend Mickey celebrated their 100th birthdays together on Saturday
* The neighbors and best friends s are active walkers and ride bikes sometimes
* They have lived four doors from each other for nearly 50 years

Yet again, the key appears to be doing on particular thing every day, it is unimportant what that thing is (any kind of food or any kind of activity), as long as you do it every day.

The key to longevity appears to be sticking to a daily routine.

From The Guardian:

Morano’s extraordinarily long life began on 29 November 1899...

She attributed her longevity to leaving her husband in 1938 shortly after the death of her only child at the age of seven months, and to the inclusion in her daily diet of two raw eggs and a little raw minced meat. When she was 20, her doctor had told her she was anaemic and that such a diet would improve her health.

Bava, her doctor for 27 years, said Morano rarely ate vegetables or fruit. “When I first met her she ate three eggs a day, two raw in the morning and then an omelette at noon, and chicken at dinner.”

Also from The Guardian:

A Spanish woman, Ana Vela, 115, who was born on 29 October 1901, is the oldest European and the fourth oldest person in the world, according to the GRG...

Speaking to El País last summer, Vela’s daughter said there was no secret to her mother’s extraordinarily long life. “She liked a glass of semi-sweet wine with her meals, but she was never one to drink a lot. She ate everything: meat, fish, vegetables. Her diet was very normal – just home-cooked stuff.”

"The secret to a long life..."

Another one of those longevity stories at the BBC:

A woman celebrating her 109th birthday said the secret to her longevity is a tot of whisky.

"I don't drink but I have a little drop of whisky every night," said Grace Jones, of Broadway, Worcestershire.

That's what they all say; I have a routine and I stick to it. It might be a tot of whiskey every night, a brisk walk every morning or a banana every afternoon, the key is routine.

But don't most people past a certain age have a daily routine which barely changes? Does any of this prove anything?

But bless her though.

Another one of those longevity stories

From Kent Online

The grandfather from Stelling Minnis, who celebrates his 96th birthday on Friday, works for Kent Wool Growers (KWG) five days a week - with no intention to retire any time soon...

Mr Huntley says he keeps fit and healthy by working, regularly exercising and making sure he gets eight hours sleep every night.

For the past 50 years he has attended the gym religiously once a week, and says nutrition is key with "meat and two veg" on the menu [every day - according to The Metro], Sussex beef especially.

All these stories about people who are still living an active life at a very old age seem to have one thing in common - they have a routine, usually a daily routine.

It doesn't seem to matter too much what the routine is - it's different for different people - but the point is to find a routine you enjoy and then just live every day pretty much the same.

Yet another story about somebody saying the secret to his/her long life is doing the same thing every day...

From The Daily Mail:

The 112-year-old New Yorker has been just crowned the oldest man in the world after Jiroemon Kimura died last month at age 116.  Sanchez-Blazquez, nicknamed 'Shorty', said a daily intake of bananas and six Anacin tablets contributed to his longevity.

"I'm an old man and let's leave it at that," the self-taught musician, coal miner and gin rummy aficionado said in a statement to Guinness World Records.

The funny thing is that it does not appear to matter too much what it is they do every day, it's different things for different people. The problem is, you can only find out what that something is by trial and error or pure luck, and you only get one shot.