BBC: 世界最長壽的老人每天吃什麽來延壽？

世界最長壽的老人每天吃什麽來延壽？

 

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Image caption 慶祝117生日的意大利老人莫拉諾

意大利老人艾瑪·莫拉諾今天（11月29日）迎來了117歲的生日。

 

莫拉諾老人到底每天吃點什麽能讓她如此長壽呢？

除了基因之外，老人的食譜也有與眾不同之處，據說，莫拉諾連續90年每天吃3個雞蛋，直到最近才改為2個。

 

通常，她要在早上吃2個生雞蛋，晚上再吃1個煎蛋卷。

今年，莫拉諾也正式成為世界上最長壽的老人。

生雞蛋和餅幹

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Image caption 莫拉諾連續90年每天吃3個雞蛋

莫拉諾承認自己長壽的部分原因是跟基因有關。她的媽媽活到91歲，其中的一些姐妹也活到了百歲。

至於飲食，按現在健康飲食的標準來說可算不上均衡。

她年輕時曾被醫生診斷為貧血，從此，她就開始一天吃3個雞蛋。

這一吃，就連續了90多年，直到最近才開始減為2個。除此之外，她每天還吃幾塊餅幹。

她的醫生說，莫拉諾平時很少吃蔬菜和水果。

除了吃雞蛋外，老人晚餐還吃雞肉。

莫拉諾隻結過一次婚，而且婚姻並不幸福，她的丈夫有家暴傾向。唯一的兒子在六個月時不幸夭折。

她真正愛戀的一名少年在一戰期間死亡。

孩子死後，她終於把丈夫趕出了家門，但一直到1978年她的丈夫死去才算真正解除了婚姻關係。

莫拉諾一直工作到75歲，之後再也沒有結婚，她說自己不想被任何人所支配。

 

原文鏈接。詳細情況見下麵英文介紹。

 

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)