Jewish food is good for you ? Who knew !
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World's oldest living man's secret? Not having children, he says
111-year-old Alexander Imich shares tips on longevity
Alexander Imich, an 111-year-old Polish immigrant and Soviet gulag survivor who lives in Manhattan, became the world's oldest living man last month when the previous record-holder, Arturo Licata, died just days before his 112th birthday.
Not like its the Nobel Prize," Imich told the New York Times after being pronounced oldest man on earth by the Gerontology Research Group. I never thought Id be that old.
According to the Gerontology group, there are 66 living women older than Imich, including a Japanese woman, Misao Okawa, who is 116.
Imich was born on Feb. 4, 1903, in Poland, and grew up in Czestochowa in southern Poland. He and his second wife, Wela, a painter and psychotherapist, immigrated to Waterbury, Conn., in 1951. Imich moved to New York in 1986 after Wela's death.
In his late 20s, the Times reports, he "grew fascinated with a Polish medium who was known as Matylda S., a doctors widow gaining renown for sances that reportedly called up the dead." He became a scholar of the occult, eventually editing an anthology Incredible Tales of the Paranormal: Documented Accounts of Poltergeist, Levitations, Phantoms, and Other Phenomena " that was published in 1995, when Imich was 92.
So what's the supercentenarian's secret? Here's what he told the Times:
Not having children.
Not drinking alcohol.
Quitting smoking.
Playing multiple sports. I was a gymnast, he said. Good runner, a good springer. Good javelin, and I was a good swimmer.
A diet "inspired by Eastern mystics who disdain food," the Times said. (According to Imich's caregivers, he eats matzo balls, gefilte fish, chicken noodle soup, Ritz crackers, scrambled eggs, chocolate and ice cream.)
"Good genes," Imich said.
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Pretty well all the mentioned food items can be eaten by someone who has no teeth, and of course everyone knows that chicken soup is Jewish penicillin. I like all the things he eats, so thinking of When Harry Met Sally, I'll have what he's having. (Unfortunately gefilte fish and matzo balls are not available here.) However, I sure do miss a hot corned beef on fresh baked rye with mustard.
No black market for that Buzz in China, LOL!
As for this old dudes diet... I see he is missing some of the worst food off his list, like Kishka, gribines, chicken fat with garlic, and chopped liver. Add those back into the equation, and he would have been dead about 40 years ago. LOL.
Oh, if you want to mention the K-rations: Kishka, Knishes, Kreplach, Knockers but none of them beat Pchaw. By gribines, do you mean grivalech? Advice about that - never buy grivalech from a mohyle.
You only practice martial arts when you're high ?
If you're gonna have chicken fat you must have it with garlic ...
All that marijuana must cause poor Willie to forget to pay his taxes.
That would explain a lot !
Arlene and I got to try Jewish food for the first time with Perrie and Matt when we visited. Can't remember the resteraunt they took us to; but, I will say that even if I didn't live as long as this fella, I'd die a happy man if I could eat Kishkas, knishs and the rest, every single day of my life.
Damn that was some good eatin'!
There was something like a stuffing, and then there where matzo balls, and... I can't remember what all everythingwas called, but holy smokes it was very tasty!
:~)
Gefilte fish is really just an excuse to use horseradish sauce ...
A word of caution;
If a mohel invites you to his home for dinner, don't eat the gribenes!
Buzz made the same observation above . Do you think the same "standard" should apply to eating the placenta after birth ?
Well, certainly it shouldn't be eaten before birth.
Oh, did you mean afterbirth?
His parents never had any children either.
His grandmother verified that yesterday.
Good - another way of saying it.
They do seem to be ageless ...
If I live to be 120, I will attribute my longevity to the fact that I didn't die sooner.
Enoch, glancing at college class pictures containing Abraham the Patriarch, Abraham Lincoln, and the originalFinjan (coffee pot) from Jay's Diner (still not yet washed out).
Pickled Herring!! YUMMY!
I'm gonna guess that after you get past a certain age you can bullshit freely about famous people and events from the past . There won't be anyone around to call you on your BS ...