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One raw egg a day: What keeps world's oldest person alive and kicking
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Emma Morano poses next to a picture depicting her where she was young, in Verbania, Italy, Friday, May 13, 2016. At 116 years of age, is now the oldest person in the world. Not only that, but she is believed to be the last surviving person in the world who was born in the 1800s, coming into the world on Nov. 29, 1899. (AP)

As a young woman in the roaring 1920s, the world's oldest living person loved to go singing and dancing.

Now 116-year-old Italian Emma Morano's next challenge is to see in the 2020s and become the oldest human being on record.

The last known surviving child of the 19th century is enjoying the spotlight after succeeding American Susannah Mushatt Jones, who died last week, as the oldest person on the planet.

And on the evidence of AFP's visit to her this weekend, Morano could very well go on long enough to surpass Jeanne Calment's record.

The Frenchwoman died in 1997 at 122 years and 164 days, the oldest recorded age achieved by a human being.

Morano was having the first of her two daily naps when AFP came calling at her tiny second-storey apartment in Verbania, a small town on the shores of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy.

But her carer had no doubt that she would want to have her picture taken once again.

Barely a few seconds after being woken, she was alert, sitting up on the edge of her bed and smiling for the camera.

- 'I'm fine, who are you?' -

Clutching an embroidered pillow she received when she celebrated her 116th birthday last year, she spoke in a barely audible but unwavering voice.

"I'm doing fine, who are you?" she said, confirming comments from her doctor and her few surviving relatives that becoming a world-beater has boosted her already remarkable vitality.

Morano's extraordinary longevity -- and more broadly Italy's high number of centenarians -- is a subject of much fascination among scientists.

The eldest of eight children, Morano was born on November 29, 1899. She has outlived all her younger siblings, the last sister having died five years ago at the age of 102.

She is now looked after by two elderly nieces with the help of a Colombian carer.

Morano cannot walk, does not see well enough to watch television and has reportedly not left her flat in 25 years.

For most of that time, Morano has been visited once a week by her doctor, Carlo Bava, who broke the record-breaking news to her and reported that his patient had been extremely proud to hear it.

Bava has helped draw the world's attention to the unconventional diet which has underpinned -- or at least not prevented -- his patient from living to such an old age.

Contrary to all received medical wisdom, Morano has thrived despite largely eschewing vegetables in favour of a diet that features at least one raw egg a day and regular portions of raw minced steak.

Her liking for pure protein goes along with a sweet tooth: she enjoys late night snacks of apple puree and biscuits and visitors often come bearing Colomba, an egg and butter-rich cake Italians associate with Easter, or Pannetone and Pandoro, traditional Christmas treats of a similar ilk.

- 90-year egg habit -

In an interview last year Morano attributed her longevity to having left a violent husband in 1938, shortly after the death in infancy of her only son.

It was always an unhappy marriage. Years before, her true love had gone off to fight in World War One and never came back.

Leaving a husband was no easy thing to do in the Church-dominated Italy of the 1930s and Morano had no choice but to work in a factory producing jute sacks to support herself.

The egg habit dates from when she was diagnosed with anaemia at 20 and a doctor advised her to eat three a day, two raw and one cooked.

She maintained that regime for 90 years and she remains a creature of habit, rising at eight every day, lunching at 11 and having dinner at six.

Both main meals are followed by long naps and Morano retires, after her snack, every night at 11:00 pm.

It is a routine she intends to maintain, she said on her 116th birthday in November. "I'm fine, I'm fine and as long as it stays like that I will remain with you.

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Unripe jackfruit helps fight diabetes: study : - A study at Sydney University's Glycemic Index Research Service has confirmed that consumption of unripe jackfruit can help fight high blood sugar level. The study was undertaken on the basis of reports on the positive effect of unripe jackfruit for diabetes and it was carried out under an initiative funded by the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation to commercially exploit freeze-dried unripe jackfruit.

Some of the patients who used unripe jackfruit daily were able to reverse the situation to pre-diabetes condition, said James Joseph, an entrepreneur promoting the use of freeze-dried raw jackfruit.

The patients who used up to 30 grams of freeze dried unripe jackfruit daily were able to eliminate wheat and rice from their daily diet and also overcome weight gain problems.

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According to the study, 30 grams of dehydrated unripe jackfruit replaced a cup of cooked rice or two wheat chapatis and also offered much higher level of being satiated or the feeling of being full, eliminating the need for snacks.. The study showed that glycemic load (glucose level) in unripe jackfruit is almost half that of rice or wheat. This is the reason why unripe jackfruit helps reverse the diabetic condition.

Sydney University's Glycemic Index Research Service is considered one of the best in the world for Glycemic Index (GI) studies recommended by the Glycemic Index Foundation.

The Centre has tested sugar value of more than 3,500 foods. The study on unripe jackfruit was conducted between January and February 2016 as per the internationally recognised GI methodology approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of University of Sydney.


another article - Techie becomes jack man of Kerala ( formerly with Microsoft Director )
James had observed that the jackfruit meal of Kerala, where unripe jackfruit displaces rice and wheat, had resulted in hypoglycaemic incidents when taken with insulin.

He also found that in many instances, where jackfruit when used instead of rice or wheat, has reversed the diabetes condition. He took this clue forward, worked with doctors, scientists, chefs and consumers. The recent study by Sydney University's Glycaemic Index Research Service has mentioned that the glycaemic load and carbohydrate content is the lowest in unripe jackfruit compared to rice and wheat and its high fibre content leads to low absorption of sugar.

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With medical advancements extending the lives of the elderly and materialistic aspirations forcing working parents to have kids later in their lives, the sandwich generation is busy caring for everybody.

Ever since my parents turned 60, their lives became very, very busy. Except, it wasn't the sort of busy they might have imagined — reclining and reading, visiting and vacationing. Instead their time is entirely spent 'caring'.. Between themselves, they care full-time for a 91-year-old man, an 87-year-old woman, and part-time for a 17-year-old girl and a one-year-old baby. They plan meals for two mostly toothless people (one who has an old, artificial set, and another that has two barely-there teeth), one who baulks at south-Indian food, and another who will eat only south-Indian food. Then, they plan their meals around the infant's vaccination appointments, the teenager's shopping trips, and the elderly people's eye-doctor visits. Their holidays, if any, depend entirely on the whims and fancies of a surrogate carer, who tends to bail out in the last minute with a "Sorry, I'm going on a temple-tour". All they do then is shrug, go out on a supply-run and pray that the baby won't throw up its mashed apple.

-- My parents belong to the sandwich generation, squashed between an older one that's exhausted its active years, and a younger one that's so active, it's exhausting.. Their parents never faced this sort of thing, they never had it this hard.. "People died early. 60 was considered 'old'," my grandmother once told me. (She had lost her parents by the time she was fifteen.) In their time, bringing up children was easy-peasy. They had them, and they, err, grew up. They fed the kids whatever was cooked for the family. They sent them off to a local school, sometimes to a college. Grandchildren visited them during the summer. For two months, the house was a mess, their schedules were a disaster. But once everyone went away, they were back chanting "Krishna, Rama".

It is increasingly rare to find 'Krishna, Rama'-chanting grandparents. My parents are not the exception; they're the rule. Many their age don't have the time. What they have instead is ambitious children, elderly parents and energetic grandchildren. And a society that tells them they cannot abandon their parents, they must not neglect their grandchildren, and they definitely should not say no to their children.

If the children happen to live abroad, they must go there and figure out a whole new way of living and dressing and eating. And of course, care for their grandchildren. If their parents live separately, they must be emotionally blackmailed to come and live with them — doesn't matter if it's a squeeze, because, you know, the more uncomfortable everybody is in this life, the lesser the chances of being reborn as an earthworm in the next.

Shirking all of this, and hankering after a 'retired' life is 'selfish'.

"But why do you two want to go to a retirement home? Your son earns well. Your daughter has a beautiful house. Go live with them! Six months here, six months there." Or, "But what will your parents do? What do you mean they like living alone? What if one of them falls down in the bathroom? Move them at once to your house."

The advice flows freely. Mostly, the peeps who offer it are (a) much older, and have never cared for the very old and the very young simultaneously, and (b) the young idealist, for whom Indian values = three generations sitting around the dining table.

Only their peers understand the need for some little respite. When they get together, they swap notes. "How is your daughter?"

"She moved to Texas and she's expecting her second baby in July. But my 101-year-old father-in-law won't let us go anywhere. He only wants his son and me to look after him…"

"Well, we can't dream of travelling now. My mother broke her hip…" off to an old-age home is something of an awkward event.

What's worse is the complete absence of a support system for them. There are calls for crèches in offices. There are cries for paternal leave. There are agencies that supply nannies. But there's no clamour for assisted living facilities and homes for the elderly to recuperate after an illness. Oh, I know we have a huge population and all that, but surely we can occasionally look to the West for some workable solutions? The Netherlands have plenty. Friends of ours who lived in a suburb outside Amsterdam — both single women in their seventies, with no immediate family — were cared for by the state. Their weekly groceries were home-delivered; someone came around to clean and cook. The council sent around a vehicle, and they went shopping.

On the other hand, what do WE offer old people, looking after older people? elderly care, according a study of human rights of the elderly in India. | K.K. Mustafah

Oh yes, there are nurses and attenders and agencies that help you find help. We tried a few recently when we had a very ill family member. It was quite an experience. One chap — a trained nurse, the agency said — treated the patient and the oxygen cylinder alike, lifting them as a weight-lifter would. Another rang one morning and said he had to go to the station. We thought he was going to pick someone up from Egmore. Turned out, he was involved in a skirmish and had to report to the police station.

"Don't trust anybody. Do everything yourself," we were told. But it was difficult. And we were nowhere as old as my parents or their friends. They do it everyday, with little fuss. They plod on, despite aching knees and varicose-veined legs. And they smile and tell everybody how sweet it is to have four generations in the same house. What they never mention is that only one does all the grunge work...


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