The world’s oldest woman has cracked the secret to her longevity: eggs.
Emma Morano, who will turn 117 on November 27, gobbles up at least
two eggs a day, and has done so for 90 years — for an egg-streme
lifetime total she says is over 100,000.
Born in 1899, Morano, of Verbania, Italy began eating eggs
religiously when she was 20 years old, after a doctor diagnosed her with
anemia and told her to consume two raw eggs and a cooked one each day.
Nowadays the hard-boiled Italian eats two eggs a day.
“And that’s it,” she told Agence-France Press. “And cookies. But I do not eat much because I have no teeth.”
Her doctor, Carlo Bava, confirmed that his patient didn’t follow conventional nutritional advice.
“Emma has always eaten very few vegetables, very little 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,” said
Nowadays, Morano doesn’t eat much meat, Bava said, “because she doesn’t like it anymore and someone told her it causes cancer.”
And she may not even have a bite of her birthday cake.
“The last time I ate a little, but then I did not feel good,” she recalled.
Morano has a few more birthdays to go before she breaks Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment’s record breaking run of 122-years-old.
She hasn’t left her two-room apartment for 20 years, and has outlived
all her immediate family, and isn’t planning a birthday party, but
Morano expects well wishers to turn up regardless.
“People come. I don’t invite anybody but they come. From America,
Switzerland, Austria, Turin, Milan… They come from all over to see me,”
she said.
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