Mexican Woman 'Oldest Human Ever' at 127 Puts Long Life Down to Eating Chocolate Gareth Roberts - Mirror
go to original August 30, 2014

Family say secrets to her long life are lots of sleep, keeping active, singing to relatives and eating sweets. She has requested beans with tortillas to celebrate. (YouTube)

A Mexican woman will become the oldest human to have ever lived tomorrow when she reaches the grand old age of 127, it has been reported.

Chocolate-lover Leandra Becerra Lumbreras was born on August 31, 1887 - the year Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee.

She was 27 when World War II broke out, already a pensioner at 66 when Queen Elizabeth ascended the British throne and 82 when man first set foot on the moon.

And the birthday girl's secret to a long life is eating well, chewing on chocolate, sleeping for days on end and never getting married, according to her family.

Ms Lumbreras reportedly fought in the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution as a leader of the 'Adelitas' - women who went with their husbands to the battle front.

The former seamstress, from the western Mexican city of Zapopan, has already buried her five children and several of her 20 grandchildren - the last died in 2013 aged 90.

She also has 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren.

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Vive en Zapopan la mujer más longeva del mundo (Televisa Guadalajara)

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