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Titolo: 112 anni a cialde e salsicce!

Una notizia curiosa dagli USA: un americano ultracentenario e in gran
forma, ha guidato l'auto fino a 102 anni ed è morto a 112!, la cui dieta
era prevalentemente  a base di cialde con la salsiccia (Sausage Waffles)!
:-)
I sostenitori dei grassi animali esulteranno, ma il dottore che commenta la
notizia nell'articolo giornalistico dice che la longevità spesso dipende
dai geni che si hanno dalla nascita piuttosto che da buone o cattive
abitudini... 
In ogni caso, credo che da un caso singolo non si possa trarre alcuna
conclusione, riporto solo come curiosità. 
Ecco la ricetta dei Sausage Waffles
1/2 pound breakfast sausage 
2 large eggs 
1 cup milk 
1 tablespoon butter, melted 
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 
1 tablespoon baking powder 
1/2 teaspoon salt 
Butter for accompaniment 
Maple syrup for accompaniment 
Crumble sausage into a medium skillet; cook over medium heat until browned.
Drain on paper towels and set aside. 
In a medium bowl, mix together eggs, milk, and melted butter. In another
bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to the egg mixture and
mix well. Cook in a hot, well-oiled waffle iron, sprinkling the sausage
over each waffle. Repeat. Serve with butter and maple syrup. 
Makes 6 servings.
L'articolo sull'arzillo nonnetto:
Man lived to 112 on sausage-and-waffles diet
'We often find it is in the genes rather than lifestyle,'
says expert		 
Associated Press - Updated: 10:31 a.m. ET Oct. 10, 2006
LOS ANGELES - George Johnson, considered California's oldest
living person at 112 and the state's last surviving World
War I veteran, had experts shaking their heads over his junk
food diet.
"He had terrible bad habits. He had a diet largely of
sausages and waffles," Dr. L. Stephen Coles, founder of the
Gerontology Research Group at the University of California,
Los Angeles, said Friday.
The 5-foot-7, 140-pound Johnson died of pneumonia Wednesday
at his Richmond home in Northern California.
"A lot of people think or imagine that your good habits and
bad habits contribute to your longevity," Coles said. "But
we often find it is in the genes rather than lifestyle."
Johnson, who was blind and living alone until his 110th
birthday when a caregiver began helping him, built the
Richmond house by hand in 1935. He got around using a walker
in recent years.
Johnson was the only living Californian considered a
"supercentenarian," a designation for those ages 110 or
older, Coles said. His group is now in the process of
validating a Los Angeles candidate who claims to be 112
years old.
Coles participated in an autopsy Thursday that was designed
to study Johnson's health.
"All of his organs were extremely youthful. They could have
been the organs of someone who was 50 or 60, not 112.
Clearly his genes had some secrets," Coles said.
'A mysterious case'
"Everything in his body that we looked at was clean as a
whistle, except for his lungs with the pneumonia," Coles
said. "He had no heart disease, he had no cancer, no
diabetes and no Alzheimer's.
"This is a mysterious case that someone could be so healthy
from a pathology point of view and that there is no obvious
cause of death."
The family was in favor of an autopsy. Relatives said
Johnson wanted them to allow it if it would help science.
Born May 1, 1894, Johnson's father managed the Baltimore and
Ohio Railway station in Philadelphia.
Johnson was working in 1917 as a mail sorter for the U.S.
Post Office when he was drafted into the Army. The war ended
a year later, and he never served in combat.
Two years later, he and his wife moved to Northern
California.
"It was a great adventure in those days. We were young and
wanted the experience," Johnson said in a March interview
with the Contra Costa Times.
The couple settled in Fresno and remained there until 1935,
when they bought property in Richmond. They used lumber
salvaged from dismantled buildings to build their house.
During World War II, Johnson worked at the Kaiser shipyard
in Richmond and later managed the heating plant at Oak Knoll
Naval Hospital in Oakland.
He remained in good health and continued driving until he
was 102, when his vision began to fail.
Johnson's wife died in 1992 at the age of 92. The couple had
no children.
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 era prevalentemente  a base di cialde con la salsiccia (Sausage Waffles)!
curioso, ma i piů non pensano che se avesse seguito una dieta salutistica 
magari sarebbe vissuto fino a 130!

 magari sarebbe vissuto fino a 130!
E a che pro avrebbe dovuto farlo? Se io arrivassi a 100 anni in buona
salute ricomincerei a fumare, e magari inizierei anche a pippare la coca.
Ciao
SilverSurfer  

 magari inizierei anche a pippare la coca.
Al massimo, inizierei a berla! ;-)