An answer to the age-old question.
Enjoy!
It’s a legendary piece of playground lore: If you swallow a piece of gum, it stays stuck in your stomach forever. So was your elementary-school buddy right?
Tag: Gum
Foods The Oldest People In The World Swear By
Live long and prosper… thanks to bacon!
This morning, we read that the oldest woman in the world, Susannah Mushatt Jones, age 116, eats four strips of bacon every morning. This, coupled with a June report that supercentenarian Agnes Fenton, age 110, credits her age to three bottles of Miller Light everyday made us realize thatwe might consider changing some things up. Maybe we should be eating less kale and quinoa and more whiskey and ice cream.
Here is what to eat and drink for longevity, according to the oldest people in the world:
Four strips of bacon every morning, and Doublemint gum throughout the day — Suannah Mushatt Jones, Age 116
Three bottles of Miller High Life and a shot of Johnnie Walker whiskey everyday — Agnes Fenton, Age 110
One tablespoon of whiskey in morning coffee — Richard Overton, Age 108
Crispy bacon, fried chicken, and ice cream — Gertrude Baines, Age 115
Three raw eggs every morning — Emma Morano, Age 115 (who added that staying single is good for one’s health)
Chewing on chocolate — Leandra Becerra Lumbreras, Age 127—the oldest person to ever live (she also swears by never marrying)
Almost Identical
An age-old social stigma says that chewing gum gives a bad impression. But is that true? Beldent debunks this myth and offers proof using in this real-life experiment.
At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Beldent recruited five sets of twins for an installation called “Almost Identical”, where the twins themselves were the art on display. The twins in each set were dressed and styled exactly the same except for one difference: one twin was chewing a piece of gum during the entire event.
Throughout the day, museum-goers participated in an interactive exhibit, answering questions concerning the image of the two twins in each set.
Of the 481 people who participated in the experiment, 73% favoured those twins who chewed gum, proving that chewing gum doesn’t give a bad impression. In fact, it does the opposite.
