Just after the death of the former ‘World’s Oldest Person’ Emma Morano, the 117-year-old Jamaican Violet-Mosse Brown is now dubbed as the newest title-holder when Guinness Wold Record officially passed the torch. Her secret to a healthy and happy life is just simple that everybody of us can actually follow.
Brown — otherwise known as Aunt V — was born on March 10, 1900 in Trelawney, which is 67 years before Jamaica was founded. She is also the first verified supercentenarian from Jamaica and the oldest verified Jamaican person ever. According to Metro, Brown is also recognised as the last living subject of England’s Queen Victoria and the oldest citizen of the Commonwealth.
Today, Mosse-Brown still lives in Duanvale, Jamaica, where her family has lived for 200 years, and she’s “doing well,” her grandchildren and great-grandchildren told CNN. Brown said in an April 2017 interview with the Jamaica Observer that she is healthier than her five remaining children and that she has no ailments at this time. Amazing, isn’t it? But how has she gotten to the big 1-1-7? Good genes seem to run in their family. When asked about the reasons for her longevity, Brown claimed that there is no secret formula to her long life. Let’s find out her healthy aging secrets that she revealed with the local Jamaican newspapers; The Gleaner and the Jamaica Observer.
1. She avoids eating three very specific foods
“Really and truly, when people ask me [what I] eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken, and I don’t drink rum and dem tings,” Mosse-Brown told The Gleaner.
Rum, pork, and chicken aside, there’s still plenty that the bubbly Aunt V will eat.
Harold Fairweather, her 97-year-old son, shared in Jamaican Observer in 2016 that Aunt V likes fish and mutton and sometimes she will have cow foot. Furthermore, she enjoys sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, breadfruit, oranges, and mangoes.
Violet Moss-Brown, 117, is now the world’s oldest woman https://t.co/wlCI4Eg03q pic.twitter.com/udixxw1ux9
— CNN (@CNN) April 17, 2017
2. She’s always been a hard worker
According to the Observer, Mosse-Brown and her late husband worked as cane farmers until they sold their crop to a larger estate. Her husband went on to become the caretaker at a local cemetery, and she took care of the books.
Mosse-Brown doesn’t work that job anymore, but that doesn’t mean she’s slowed down: Lelieth Palmer, her granddaughter told CNN: “She continues to be very hard-working, even now.”
The world’s oldest human is Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on March 10, 1900. Congrats Violet. pic.twitter.com/AnjXdHK1Kz
— Andrew Holness (@AndrewHolnessJM) April 15, 2017
3. She stays positive
Jamaica Observer reports that Mosse-Brown’s friends and family enjoy the company of this positive lady, who likes to regale them with tales of faith and poetry readings. Accordingly, her favorite poem is “The Vision of Belshazzar” by Lord Byron, which she can unbelievably still recite by heart.
Brown positively told the Gleaner back in 2010, smiling: “You know, sometimes I ask myself, ‘Am I really 110 years old?’ because I don’t feel like 110.”
Since earning the title of “World’s Oldest Person,” Mosse-Brown has echoed that sentiment: “I feel good, I feel happy to be the oldest person [in the world],” Brown told the Observer more recently. “I did not feel I would become the oldest person, I feel I would pass long ago. Thank God for whatever He has given to me.”
CNN reports that Brown became the world’s oldest living person on Saturday after the death of 117-year-old Emma Morano. Guinness World Records officially confirmed Morano as the last living person to have been born in the 1800s.
Sources:
- www.drozthegoodlife.com
- www.redbookmag.com
- www.edition.cnn.com
- www.jamaica-gleaner.com
- www.metro.co.uk
- www.pix11.com