Oldest woman liked mackerel sushi above all else

[TylerDurden]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/05/life-short-worlds-oldest-person-misao-okawa-117

[eveheart]

[from the article cited] She married almost a century ago and has been a widow for more than 80 years.

There's her real secret of longevity!

[JeuneKoq]

There's her real secret of longevity!

HAHA  was thinking just the same!

[cherimoya_kid]

Their longevity is due, in large part, to their seafood-rich diet, no doubt.

[TylerDurden]

Their longevity is due, in large part, to their seafood-rich diet, no doubt.

Japanese people are known to mostly prefer eating their  seafood raw.

[goodsamaritan]

I was hoping we all find a way to be 120 years old and yet look like 50 year olds.

[eveheart]

I was hoping we all find a way to be 120 years old and yet look like 50 year olds.

Why?

And why (arbitrarily) 50? Our appearance changes yearly during our lives. Would you have the apple be forever green and never ripen into its delicious sweetness?

[goodsamaritan]

50 I gave was just an arbitrary number.

It could be 20 or 30 or 40.

What I see with this lady is she has decayed so much at 117.

Hopefully we can age much BETTER.

[TylerDurden]

"Delicious sweetness"?      I don't think many people would want to live out their remaining years with skin looking like dried-out parchment , with serious arthritis and a corpse-like face.

GS is on track re this. There have already been several studies showing that modern humans of current generations are feeling problems of ill-health  at 80 what previous generations  used to experience  at  around 60 years of age. And that is without a rawpalaeodiet. With a rawpalaeodiet, minimal  exposure to air-pollution, lots of exercise and the like, maybe we RPDers can end up looking  like 50 when we are a 100 or more.