What Do 100 Year Old People Eat?
The foods in your daily diet play a major role in how healthy you are and how long a life you live. In fact, one of the key practices of people living in blue zones is eating a diet of mostly plant-based foods of fruits, vegetables and nuts. In past interviews with CNBC Make It and other publications, many centenarians credited their diet for living a long, healthy life. Here’s what four people, ages 99 and older say they always eat and also what they never do.
Elizabeth Francis, 115: Elizabeth Francis, the oldest living person in the U.S. who is 115 years old, told ABC 13, that she eats “everything.” But Francis “always grew her vegetables in the backyard. I never saw her go to a fast food restaurant as much like Chick-fil-A and all the places I liked to go. She never did that,” her granddaughter, Ethel Harrison, told TODAY.com. Francis has also never smoked and doesn’t drink alcohol, Harrison noted.
Deborah Szekely, 102: At 102 years old, Deborah Szekely still helps to run her fitness resort and spa three times a week. Szekely has followed a mainly plant-based diet since her childhood. “I’m a pescatarian. And I actually have been fortunate of never eating meat because of my parents,” she told Make It.
Excerpted from NBC New York
