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  You're right and I really wonder if diet has anything to do with it. My MIL is 98 and has always eaten like a little kid ( mac and cheese, tea and toast, cookies and cakes , sips juice all day) never eats vegetables and grew up on all canned goods but she has absolutely no health problems. She can't figure out why she is alive either, besides the " shit ton of good luck".
context: For reference, this woman was:
  - 6 years old when World War One began
  - 21 years old when the stock market crashed
  - 32 years old when WW2 began in Europe and 35 when the US entered
  - 42 years old when the Korean War began
  - 59 years old during the Summer of Love
  - 61 years old when the first moon landing occurred
  - 67 years old when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese
  - 73 years old (by three days) when Reagan was elected president
  - 82 years old (by two days) when the Berlin Wall fell
  - 84 years old when the USSR ceased to exist
  - 93 years old on 9/11
  - 100 years old when Barack Obama was elected president  
  Needless to say, it's hard to even imagine the level of change she experienced over the course of her life. >
  
  Whoa. The 911 and USSR ones seem crazy to me. >
  
  Didn’t even mention 11ish 1919 when the USSR began, 5 years after WW1 started. So she out lasted it >
  
  The USSR only lasted 70ish years, so I imagine quite a lot of the people born in the years leading up to its formation outlived it. >
  
  Yeah my paternal great grandparents outlived it by nearly 20 years and were born a few years before it. >
  
  
  At her 110th birthday party in 2017, Bessie told us that the secret to a long life was hard work
  
  I'm gonna side with the centurians who claim it's whiskey and bacon every day >
  
  I’m beginning to think these folks have no fucking clue how they ended up living so long >
  
  Genetics, good health, and a shit ton of good luck (or bad depending on your perspective).