Unrecognized life expectancy record
How to live to 132 years?
Dmitry Tselikov, Compulenta
The last person on the planet who, perhaps, still remembered what the air was like in the eighties of the century before last died.
Antisa Khvichava, who claimed to be 132 years old, died in the Georgian village of Sachino in the 47th year of retirement. If she was really that old, then she should be considered a record holder among centenarians.
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Alas, although the birth certificate and passport indicate that Khvichava was born on July 8, 1880, these are not originals, but copies. The originals were lost a long time ago, so it is impossible to recognize her as the oldest person on earth.
At the same time, science has no right to say that it is impossible to live so much, because the maximum life expectancy has not been established. According to Gerontology Research Group, the oldest person at the time of registration of such information, who died in 1798, was 103 years old, and the Frenchwoman Jeanne Kalman, who left this world in 1997, was already 122.
What have these people done to themselves? Nothing special. Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University (USA) showed last year that among people over 95 years of age, bad habits (smoking, alcohol consumption, poor nutrition, lack of exercise) occur with about the same frequency as among the general population. In other words, longevity is based on genes. And, of course, luck, thanks to which no one has killed a person for so many years.
Of course, this does not mean that we should abandon a healthy lifestyle and accept the doctrine of genetic fatalism. We are talking only about the fact that people like Khvichava (by the way, they say that not a day has passed without a glass) have extremely rare genetic protection against bad habits.
Therefore, everyone else who is not ready to play roulette with fate remains a moderate and healthy lifestyle. For example, it has been noticed that Seventh-day Adventists exchange the second century with enviable regularity in the USA. Gary Fraser from Loma Linda University and his colleagues have shown that vegetarianism, smoking cessation and frequent consumption of nuts are common among adherents of this religion.
Well, for superstitious readers, we will throw up such a fact. The oldest inhabitant of the planet at the moment is officially recognized as an American Bessie Cooper from Georgia (Georgia, Georgia – did you catch the hint?). She was born on August 26, 1896. She is 116 years old.
Prepared based on the materials of LiveScience: How Did Woman Live to 132?Portal "Eternal youth" http://vechnayamolodost.ru