Is this woman the oldest person that ever lived? Chinese pensioner has 'just turned 127 years old' (and claims she gave birth to her son at 61)
By
Graham Smith
A woman who claims to be the world's oldest person has allegedly celebrated her 127th birthday.
Luo Meizhen lives with her only son, who she reportedly gave birth to at the age of 61, in Bama, south China's Guangxi province.
She was born on July 9, 1885 in the Chinese lunar calendar, which this year fell on August 25 in the international calendar.
That would make her 127 - five years older than the verified oldest person who ever lived.
OLDEST PEOPLE WHO EVER LIVED
- Jeanne Calment, 1875 - 1997, 122 years and 164 days, France
- Sarah Knauss, 1880 - 1999, 119 years and 97 days, U.S.
- Lucy Hannah, 1875 - 1993, 117 years and 248 days, U.S.
- Marie-Louise Meilleur, 1880 - 1998, 117 years and 230 days, Canada
- María Capovilla, 1889 - 2006, 116 years and 347 days, Ecuador
- Tane Ikai, 1879 - 1995, 116 years and 175 days, Japan
- Elizabeth Bolden, 1890 - 2006, 116 years and 118 days, U.S.
- Besse Cooper (still living), 1896 - ?, 116 years and 10 days, U.S.
Record-breaker? Luo lives in Bama in south China's Guangxi province and was reportedly born on July 9, 1885
At
a birthday party held in her honour Luo ate a bowl of rice, two slices
of pork, a piece of duck meat and chicken, and two pieces of cake.
Bama
County is famous in China for the longevity of its residents. The 2000
census recorded 74 centenarians, a surprisingly large number considering
the total population is only 238,000.
The ratio of centenarians
there is 30.8 per 100,000, far exceeding the international standard of
25 per 100,000 for 'hometowns of longevity' - centenarian-clustered
areas recognised by the International Natural Medicine Society.
Lou's claim to be 127 is likely to be met with a large dose of scepticism.
The verified oldest person in the world turned 116 just last month.
Birthday girl: Luo celebrates her special day last month with her family and friends
Make a wish: Luo's son helps her cut her 127th birthday cake
Besse Cooper, from Monroe,
Georgia, rang in her 117th year of life on August 26, surrounded by
friends and family at the nursing home where she now lives.
When
asked about her secret to long life, Mrs Cooper told Guinness World
Records: 'I mind my own business and I don't eat junk food.'
She was born on August 26, 1896, in Sullivan, Tennessee and moved to Georgia in 1917.
Besse has 12 grandchildren and a slew of great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
The
verified oldest person to have ever lived was Frenchwoman Jeanne
Calment, who was born in 1875 and died in 1997 aged 122 years and 164
days old.
Good times: Luo shares a joke with her son and a young member of the family
Feast: Luo and some younger members of her clan pose for a photo
2 comments:
If it is the truth, she is 100% Alzheimer for sure and still talking the old Chinese language.
As the moon drifts away further and further from earth,
the time it takes the earth to revolve around itself is
getting longer and longer. We can say that the day is
getting longer or the earth revolves slower around it own axis.
When the moon was just at half distance of where it is right
now from the earth, the earth full day time was consisted
of only about 16 hours !
8 hrs bright and 8 hrs dark.
There were about 600 days in one year then.
If one was living at that eon time, s/he experienced the
very long life and boring too perhaps !
Imagine you go both to sleep and wake up more often...the
only good thing was........... more making love time !
Hundred millions years from now there will be only 200
days in a year ?!!!
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