13 Of The Oldest People Guess How They Lived So Long
What's the secret to longevity?
![13 Of The Oldest People Guess How They Lived So Long](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/2/804562_320x180.jpg)
If there’s one thing we learned while researching some of the oldest people to have ever lived, it’s that there’s really no rhyme or reason. Genetics? Some people had relatives who lived a long time, but others had a lot of families that died tragically young. Diet? Definitely no similarities there. Healthy habits? Sometimes, but some were life-long smokers. Two people cite hard work…but that can’t be right. It all seems like luck, but try to see discover their secrets for yourself.
![Yisrael Kristal 113 YEARS CRACKED.COM Kristal lost his parents during WWI and his wife and children were murdered at Auschwitz. When the Holocaust survivor was rescued from the camp, he weighed only 81 pounds. Kristal said of his old age, There have been smarter, stronger and better-looking men than me who are no longer alive.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/1/804561.jpg)
Source: BBC
![Walter Breuning 114 YEARS CRACKED.COM Breuning was able to recall his grandfather's stories of the U.S. Civil War and was passionate about ending wars in Afganistan and Iraq when he died in 2011. Не said his long life was due to eating only two meals a day.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/0/804560.jpg)
Source: BBC
![Emiliano Mercado del Toro 115 YEARS GRACKED.COM The World War I veteran died in 2007, attributing his long life to eating right and not drinking alcohol. Не, however, smoked for 76 years.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/9/804559.jpg)
Source: LA Times
![Christian Mortensen 115 YEARS GRAGKED.COM Mortensen said, 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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/1/804541.jpg)
Source: New York Times
![Jiroemon Kimura 116 YEARS CRACKED.COM The verified oldest man to live reportedly said his secret was eating light to live long. In another interview, he said, Maybe it's all thanks to the sun above me. I am always looking up towards the sky, that is how I am.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/3/804413.jpg)
Source: BBC
![Emma Morano 117 YEARS CRACKED.COM Morano rarely ate fruits or vegetables but had up to three eggs per day. She ate two raw eggs in the morning, an omelet for lunch, and chicken for dinner. She credited her longevity to deciding to kick out her abusive husband.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/8/804468.jpg)
Source: BBC
![Violet Brown 117 YEARS CRACKED.COM Brown said the secret to a long life is hard work, growing up working in sugarcane fields in Jamaica. She once said, I eat everything, except pork and chicken, and I don't drink rum and them things.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/9/804409.jpg)
Source: ABC.net
![Marie-Louise Meilleur 117 YEARS GRAGKED.COM The longest living Canadian attributed her long life to hard work. She is said to have enjoyed a class of wine and only quit smoking at age 90.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/7/804407.jpg)
Source: New York Times
![Nabi Tajima 117 YEARS CRACKED.COM Tajima claimed her long life was due to eating delicious food and sleeping well. She had more than 140 descendants when she passed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/1/804401.jpg)
Source: Slate
![Sister André 117 YEARS (& counting) GRAGKED.COM Tanaka is the oldest person to get, as well as survive, COVID-19. She says she isn't scared to die, adding, I'm happy to be with you, but I would wish to be somewhere else - join my big brother and my grandfather and my grandmother. She became a nun in 1944 at the age of 40.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/5/804385.jpg)
Source: Washington Post
![Kane Tanaka 118 YEARS (& counting) CRACKED.COM Tanaka is the oldest living person, living through two pandemic. Her family says her longevity is due to staying curious and doing math. She likes playing the board game Othello and drinking soda.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/4/804384.jpg)
Source: CNN
![Sarah Knauss 119 YEARS CRACKED.COM Her family attributed to her longevity her demeanor, saying she was a calm person who was not surprised by events. When she was told she was the oldest living person, she replied, So what?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/2/804342.jpg)
Source: BBC
![Jeanne Louise Calment 122 YEARS GRAGKED.COM The oldest documented person to live ate more than two pounds of chocolate a week treated her skin with olive oil, rode a bicycle until she was 100, and only quit smoking five years before her death in 1997. When she was young, she saw Van Gogh and said he was very ugly, ungracious, impolite...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/0/804340.jpg)
Source: New York Times