Sizzling Longevity: World's Oldest Person Eats Bacon Daily

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Sizzling Longevity: World's Oldest Person Eats Bacon Daily

Could it be that a few slices of bacon a day keep the doctor away? The world's oldest living person, Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York, recently said that she eats a serving of bacon every day.

Jones, who turned 116 on July 6 and was crowned the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records that month, confessed her bacon habit in an interview published this week on the New York Post's site Page Six. So far, the Internet is having a field day with this information.

"If the world's oldest woman eats bacon every day, we can too — right?" tweeted People Magazine. "Lots of sleep as well as several slices of bacon, scrambled eggs and grits each morning is said to be her secret to longevity," Fox 5 Atlanta posted on Facebook. [Extending Life: 7 Ways to Live Past 100]

But before you go ordering that side of crispy processed meat product, you should know that bacon is not a fountain of youth, as the Internet might be suggesting. And Jones never said it was. Sure, she has a sign that says, "Bacon makes everything better" hanging in her kitchen, but in her interviews with both with Guinness World Records and Page Six, Jones credited her good sleeping habits, as well as her abstinence from tobacco and alcohol, for her continued good health.

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