Meet The Oldest Living Person within the World.
as medical technology advances human
longevity continues to extend as a
result the typical lifespan is
increasing in most parts of the
developed world and therefore the world's oldest
people still set records a
Japanese woman recently broke her own
record to become the world's oldest
living woman her name is Connie Tanaka
and she recently turned 117 years old
the supercentenarian marked her occasion
with friends and family at a nursing
home in Fukuoka miss Tanaka whose
birthday was on the 2nd of January took
a bite of her big cake and said
with a smile tasty i would like some more
purple flower pins stood out from the
right side of her short white hair as
she made her way through the party during a
wheelchair decorated with faux pink and
white flowers tinsel and foil stars she
clapped her way into her big day and
stopped to kiss the hands of
well-wishers before singing a cheerful
birthday song tanaka has dreamed of
being the record holder for the world's
oldest person since she turned 100 CBS
News reported the seventh of eight
children cried tears of joy when she was
handed two plaques last year for being
the world's oldest living person and therefore the
world's oldest living woman Tanaka's
honor is representative of Japan's
cultural deference to its older
populations also as a diet and health
care system that permits its population
to age well into the 80s and Beyond it
also stands as a logo of the low
birthrate within the country consistent with
Reuters potentially putting the country
at risk of a labor shortage during World
War two
Tanaka worked in her family's store
selling rice cakes and noodles her son
nobuo was captured by the Soviets but
was released in 1947 she continued to
work in the shop before retiring at the
age of 63 within the 1970s she visited the
United States where she has several
nieces and nephews at the age of 103
tanaka was diagnosed with carcinoma
but survived a five-hour long surgery
when she was 107 her son wrote a book
about her which discusses her life in
longevity Tanaka currently resides in
Fukuoka Prefecture and has lived during a
nursing home since 2005 at the age of
117 she will get around with the assistance of
a walker play Othello and do math
problems and calligraphy her favorite
foods include chocolate and pop
beverages she likes to write poetry and
she can still remember her trips to the
United States she attributes her
longevity to her faith in God she is that the
fourth Japanese person to carry the
honour the others being Nabi Tajima
miyako and misil Okawa many of us are
curious about Tanaka's diet and
lifestyle hoping to recreate her ability
to live beyond a century food was an enormous
part of her life as her father ran a
family business that made and sold
sticky rice food on noodles and cents I
a traditional Japanese bean dessert in
1937 while her husband was within the
military she became more involved within the
business
Guinness reports polishing rice and
making rice cakes one among the most photo
snapped of her world-record celebration
shows her digging into an enormous Tower of
strawberries served with topping
but she enjoys other treats too during
the presentation ceremony Connie was
given a box of chocolates which she
immediately opened and began eating
Guinness reporting later she was asked
how many chocolates she wants to eat
today and replied 100 and consistent with
the Daily Mail she had previously
attributed her longevity to a robust
appetite and her liking of sweets coffee
and fizzy drinks so maybe you do not need
to put down that cup or box of
chocolates a minimum of if you want to
make it to the century mark some also
credit the overall Japanese diet with
their increased longevity when the
Japanese eat meat they eat mostly heart
healthy fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids
other popular foods include tofu seaweed
and octopus all of which carry a coffee
risk for a few cancers and
arteriosclerosis the japanese diets
focus on fish rice vegetables and other
low-fat non-processed foods has resulted
in lower obesity rates compared to
Western countries and a better life
expectancy particularly among women if
you're keen to measure past 100 consider
the Okinawa diet the region of Japan
with the most important concentration of
centenarians anywhere within the world this
consists of seaweed bitter melon leafy
green vegetables tofu fish modest
portions of rice and lashings of
sweet potato
although changing dietary habits means
obesity has been rising it's still
relatively rare during a nation whose
culinary tradition focuses on fish rice
vegetables and other foods low in fat
age is additionally traditionally respected in
Japan meaning people stay active into
their 80s and beyond
and while Connie holds the title of the
oldest living person she is way
from the oldest person in history that
title belongs to Jean Cal men who lived
to be quite 122 years old though her
age has been verified there's a well-liked
conspiracy theory that she actually died
many years earlier the conspiracy states
that comments
daughter was posing as her mother in
order to save lots of money some claim that come
in actually died at the age of 59 in 1934
and her daughter Yvonne assumed her
identity after the very fact to avoid
inheritance taxes and was thus the one
who died in 1997 at the impressive but
not record-breaking age of 99 but now
Cal men's fans are breathing a sigh of
relief after the publication of a replacement
study which disqualifies the previous
study presenting mathematical models
they say make cow man's age plausible
the team adds that the previous study
and its own mathematical findings don't
reach the extent expected for a
scientific publication the French team
readily admits that the majority age claims
beyond 115 are false but the experts say
that members of their team unlike the
other researchers were actually ready to
visit cow man face to face coming in additional
than three years younger is that the second
oldest person to ever live Sarah knows
the Pennsylvania native lived to be 100
19 years old and gave up the ghost in 1999
now who's born September 24th 1880 and
lived a quiet life as a homemaker and
insurance office manager found herself
in the international spotlight after
Guinness declared her the world's oldest
person in 1998 upon the death of Marie
Louise febrile NEMA lure of Quebec who
was 117 at the time of her death Sarah
was still following her passion on
television golf she boasted that she had
been ready to live a few years by nibbling
milk chocolate turtles cashews and
potato chips in an interview in 1998 she
said that so as to measure as long as
she did you've got to stay yourself busy
work hard and never worry about how old
you are
nas died of natural causes although she
wasn't sick at that moment she still
remains the oldest person from the
United States though she not holds
the title many hoped to succeed in her ripe
old age with the exponential
developments in medical technology that
dream might become a reality for several
people