World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117

Re:World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117 by openasocket on Saturday April 15, 2017 @08:44PM (#14123726)

I doubt it. In my experience the elderly tend to have weird diets, especially towards the end. I'm guessing it's due to a bunch of factors: trouble chewing/swallowing means eating is more of an ordeal, reduced need for calories because of reduced physical activity, and reduced sense of taste and smell makes eating unrewarding. My great grandmother spent her last year or two subsisting almost entirely on Kit Kat bars. We used to joke she could have appeared in a commercial for them, implying the Kit Kat bars were the reason for her longevity (she was 98).

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Re:World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117 by notyourwork on Saturday April 15, 2017 @10:16PM (#14124001)

She ate this way for 90 years so it sounds like her motivation wasn't lack of teeth or being old. I'd suggest reading the article before making conclusions.

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Re:World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117 by Broken_Hippo on Sunday April 16, 2017 @04:48AM (#14124990)

The article doesn't say this at all. It says that she used to eat more eggs - 3 raw, plus an omelette at lunch and chicken at dinner. She had cut down to 2 raw eggs a day and had added in some biscuits.

The poster could easily be correct.

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Re:World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117 by notyourwork on Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:03PM (#14126682)

It seems you are also having trouble reading the article so let me paste a quote directly from the article to help you:

"But it was also down to a rather unusual diet of three eggs - two raw - each day for more than 90 years."

I'm not sure how else to interpret this statement.

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Re:World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117 by Broken_Hippo on Sunday April 16, 2017 @03:49PM (#14127173)

You should read further. It goes on to say the rest:

It was a regime she took up as a young woman, after the doctor diagnosed her with anaemia shortly after World War One. She had cut down to just two eggs a day, and a few biscuits recently. Her doctor of 27 years, Carlo Bava, had told AFP news agency that she rarely ate vegetables or 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."

I did misquote the number of eggs, but not the fact that she had cut down on the amount she was eating.

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Re:World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117 by openasocket on Monday April 17, 2017 @11:57AM (#14131854)

But that doesn't mean she ate only eggs, just that she ate a lot of eggs.

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