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Ever since I was a kid, I was always curious about the secrets to longevity and what made people live to 100. I mean, 100 is kind of a random number, but triple digits?! Thats pretty amazing there must be some kind of secret. Seeing as you usually hear that peoples grandparents die in their 70s or 80s I was totally intrigued by these long-lived peeps.

My great grandma, who I knew until I was about 10 years old, lived to her later 90s, 97 or 98 and I was still hanging out with her at that age talking about life. Unfortunately since I was so young, the only thing I remember was how creepy she was. She was really small. Really thin. And really veiny.

Anyway, as I got older I became more interested in longevity not because I actually wanted to live to 120, but because the kinds of people that live to 120 are the ones who usually enjoy an unprecedented quality of life throughout their lives.

The people who take good enough care of themselves to live to that ripe, old age, also suffer from a fraction (or none) of the health problems that plague the majority of people today.

Interestingly enough, as I researched the secrets to their longevity I found much of the same advice, over and over.

You can find that advice below.

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Based on her Wikipedia entry, at age 85, she took up fencing and continued to ride her bicycle up until her 100th birthday. She was reportedly neither athletic, nor fanatical about her health.

Calment lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday, when it was decided that she needed to be moved to a nursing home after a cooking accident (she was having complications with sight) started a small fire in her house.

Calment smoked from the age of 21 to 117, though according to an unspecified source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day. (Damn babygirl you smoked for 100 years?!)

Calment ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to olive oil, which she said she poured on all her food and rubbed onto her skin, as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilogram (2.2lb) of chocolate every week.

Not a bad life, eh? Smoke, drink and eat chocolate.

Based on biographical information via Wikipedia:

Her only child, Kathryn Knauss Sullivan, who was 96 at the time of Sarahs death and lived to be 101 herself, once explained Knauss longevity by saying: Shes a very tranquil person and nothing fazes her. Thats why shes living this long.

On his 115th birthday Mortensen gave his advice for a long life: Friends, a good cigar, drinking lots of good water, no alcohol, staying positive and lots of singing will keep you alive for a long time.

He credited his longevity to funche, a boiled corn, codfish and milk cream-like dish, which he ate every day as a habit. Mercado also claimed that his sense of humor was probably responsible for his long life, and he would tell jokes and humorous anecdotes almost to the end of his days.

He would not elaborate on details of his love life, but would humorously hint about them: in one of the many interviews he gave to Puerto Rican media, Mercado claimed to have been at the dancing club (a euphemism for a bordello) owned by Isabel la Negra the day she was assassinated.

He was 82 years old at the time and reportedly hid under a table when Oppenheimers killers started firing gunshots. Asked what he was doing there, he said: praying or at least I was when the bullets started flying!

Mind your own business and dont eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.

Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You cant laugh and be angry, you cant laugh and feel sad, you cant laugh and feel envious.

Do the right thing, dont smoke, dont drink, eat right and dont overdo it. If you need a little extra help, take some vitamins. Going to work is what keeps me going.

Look inside your soul and nd your tools. We all have tools and have to live with the help of them. I have two tools, my words and my images. I used my typewriter, computer and my cameras to ght injustice. Whenever I see a possibility of helping people who are in danger, I want to help them.

Eat right and do what you love. Whatever you love to do is play; doing what you dont like to do is work. I have never worked a day in my life!

Have a good appetite, lots of friends, and keep busy.

Stay active even at 100. Eat in a balanced way Dont stay mad at anythingyou have to get used to the losses, otherwise you cant win. Lastly, stay close with your family, they keep you thinking.

Have a good wife, two scotches a night, and be easy-going.

It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.

Take it easy, enjoy life, what will be will be. Sleep well, have a Baileys Irish Cream before bed if you have a coldyou will wake up ne the next morning.

Dont smoke, dont drink, and dont retire!

Take one day at a time and go along with the tide.

Keep busy! Do things that youve never done before.

Dont ght the day, just let it be. Get up and be positive. Avoid any and all drama; I dont get involved with silly minutiae or difcult personalities; people respect me for that.

Be good, dont complain, just get up and do. Keep on working, keep on going, and have a good time.

Get involved. Youll nd pleasure and sometimes disappointment but there is a sense of achievement if you participate in a successful undertaking, whether it is organizational or professional. Work hard, it will pay off.

Whatever is hard, you make hard, but if you take it as it comes, it doesnt come hard. Dont worry, dont want so much, and be satisfied with what youve got. Be willing to share with your friends and those less fortunate.

You must keep active or you will just wither away. Always be involved in some activity.

You have to make the best out of your life and have a good attitude.

When you live for God, talk to him, go to church, have nice people around you; that is the best medicine. God provides for you. Sometimes you dont know when it is coming, but it is coming.

Try to understand the kind of person you are and accept who you are; but if you want to improve your situation, change it. Keep your eye on the stars and try to succeed at what you want to do.

For a long, healthy life, you need a plan and a purpose. It could be family, writing a book, becoming president. Without a purpose, plan or objective, what do you need?

Never run out of responsibility; if you dont have one, nd one. Find a cause and knock yourself out for it. It will enhance your brainpower, interest in life, and keep you alive longer. Im alert because I work. Virtue is its own reward.

My longevity is attributed to my long happy marriage. We did everything together. She was perfect in my eyes.

You know whats cool?

There are definitely a few things repeated over and over.

I went back through the list and wrote down the top 5 things that appeared the most frequently. Do you know what they were?

The most commonly cited things:

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I think that many of us intuitively know some of the things that contribute to a long life, like relaxing and enjoying life, keeping your mind busy, and obviously eating right and exercising.

One of the craziest things Ive come across in the past few years is that some people have willed themselves to death. In extreme survival situations, people have been found in safe, secure places, with food and water, who simply gave up. Sometimes there was a journal, but other times these people had no verifiable medical reason for their death. They just didnt want to fight.

The external is seriously overrated in our society people seem to neglect the power of the mind to make a person happy or miserable, successful or unsuccessful, lazy or driven.

The oldest woman in the world smoked every day for almost 100 years. Was she lucky? Maybe.

But listen to all of these people talk they just freaking love life. A good cigar, a glass of wine, some chocolate, and good friends. Theyre living the good life no wonder they want to go on living.

So what about you? Do you know anyone who lived to a ripe-old age? What do you think contributed to it?

Yes, Im pretty biased since Im the author of the book.

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Its not about diets.

Its not about stupid eating less and moving more advice.

Its not about willpower, discipline and grinding it out.

It all comes down to habits just a few in particular.

I cover all of them in my bookMaster The Day: Eat, Move and Live Better With The Power of Tiny Habits.

Check it out on Amazon here.

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Alex

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Sources: Some adapted from the book Extraordinary Centenarians in America.

Other quotes were compiled from interviews listed in Wikipedia.

Images: Indian Man, Countryside, Empire State Building, Puzzle, Bridge, Sunset, Ice & Sunset, Green Vegetable, Desert

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23 People That Lived to 100 Spill Their Secrets of Longevity

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