BBC: 世界最长寿的老人每天吃什么来延寿？

世界最长寿的老人每天吃什么来延寿？

 

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Image caption 庆祝117生日的意大利老人莫拉诺

意大利老人艾玛·莫拉诺今天（11月29日）迎来了117岁的生日。

 

莫拉诺老人到底每天吃点什么能让她如此长寿呢？

除了基因之外，老人的食谱也有与众不同之处，据说，莫拉诺连续90年每天吃3个鸡蛋，直到最近才改为2个。

 

通常，她要在早上吃2个生鸡蛋，晚上再吃1个煎蛋卷。

今年，莫拉诺也正式成为世界上最长寿的老人。

生鸡蛋和饼干

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Image caption 莫拉诺连续90年每天吃3个鸡蛋

莫拉诺承认自己长寿的部分原因是跟基因有关。她的妈妈活到91岁，其中的一些姐妹也活到了百岁。

至于饮食，按现在健康饮食的标准来说可算不上均衡。

她年轻时曾被医生诊断为贫血，从此，她就开始一天吃3个鸡蛋。

这一吃，就连续了90多年，直到最近才开始减为2个。除此之外，她每天还吃几块饼干。

她的医生说，莫拉诺平时很少吃蔬菜和水果。

除了吃鸡蛋外，老人晚餐还吃鸡肉。

莫拉诺只结过一次婚，而且婚姻并不幸福，她的丈夫有家暴倾向。唯一的儿子在六个月时不幸夭折。

她真正爱恋的一名少年在一战期间死亡。

孩子死后，她终于把丈夫赶出了家门，但一直到1978年她的丈夫死去才算真正解除了婚姻关系。

莫拉诺一直工作到75岁，之后再也没有结婚，她说自己不想被任何人所支配。

 

原文链接。详细情况见下面英文介绍。

 

Thriving on raw eggs, world's oldest person marks 117th birthday in Italy

VERBANIA, Italy (Reuters) - Emma Morano, thought to be the world's oldest person and the last to be born in the 1800s, celebrated her 117th birthday on Tuesday, still swearing by her diet of two raw eggs a day.

Morano was born in November 1899, four years before the Wright brothers first took to the air. Her life has spanned three centuries, two World Wars and over 90 Italian governments.

Friends, neighbors and her doctor gathered in her small apartment in the northern town of Verbania, on the shores of Lake Maggiore, to mark the latest milestone, presenting her with a large white birthday cake.

"My life wasn't so nice," she told Reuters TV as she sat in an armchair by her window, a white shawl over her shoulders. "I worked in a factory until I was 65, then that was that."

In an interview with La Stampa newspaper five years ago she said her fiance had died in World War One and that she had then been forced to marry a man she did not love.

"'Either you agree to marry me or I will kill you'," Morano said, recalling his proposal. "I was 26. We got married."

It was not a happy marriage. They had a boy in 1937, but the baby died after just six months and the following year Morano kicked out her abusive husband. "I separated from him in 1938. I think I was one of the first in Italy to do that."

Morano lives alone and has outlived all her eight brothers and sisters, including one who died at 102. She has thrived despite an unorthodox, unbalanced diet.

"When I first knew her she used to eat three eggs a day. Two raw, and one fried. Today she has slowed down a bit, reducing the number to two some days because she says three can be too much," her doctor Carlo Bava told Reuters TV.

"She has never eaten much fruit or vegetables. Her characteristic is that she always eats the same thing, every day, every week, every month and every year."

(Reporting by Crispian Balmer; editing by Mark Heinrich)