Showing posts with label Besse Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Besse Cooper. Show all posts

Friday, August 31, 2012

Words of wisdom from world's oldest living person

Besse Cooper, the world’s oldest living person who turned age 116 on Sunday, shared some secrets to her longevity:  "I mind my own business, and I don't eat junk food.” 
Her son Sidney observed, "The older she has gotten the more wittier she has gotten." 
Sensible advice like Michael Pollan's commandment in Food Rules:
“Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food."