World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117

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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