Emma Morano wants to keep the title of “oldest lady in Europe”. This resident of Verbania, a small town on the shores of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, has just celebrated her 116th birthday.
Of course, the secret of her longevity is undoubtedly due to genetic reasons (her mother died at 91 and her two sisters respectively at 102 and 107) but “Signorina Morano” is convinced, as for her, that her incredible resistance is due to a nutritional secret: raw eggs. The old lady has indeed eaten between 2 and 3 a day since her adolescence, thus following the prescription of her doctor at the time to fight against anemia.
No question of leaving his little two-room apartment
Born November 29, 1899, Emma Morano is currently the second oldest woman in the world, behind the American Susannah Mushatt Jones, born four months earlier. And no question, for this little bit of energetic woman, to end her days in a home for the elderly. Even if her legs no longer allow her to climb the steps leading to her apartment, she wanted to stay in her small two-room apartment. Even if she had to accept the presence, for a year, of a home help.
For her 116th birthday, the old lady, who has known the pontificate of 11 different popes, received a parchment with the solemn apostolic blessing of Pope Francis. Then she submitted with good grace (a habit now) to the visit of cameramen from Italian and foreign television. Her only regret: for a year, she no longer has the right to the little chocolates she adored. But as the doctor who has followed her since she was 90 points out: “If all my patients had been like her, I would have spent my life reading my diary”.
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