A Foolproof* Quasquicentennial Plan: How to Live to See 127 (*It Is Not Foolproof) Jessica Roy - Fusion
go to original September 8, 2014

Misao Okawa, who is recognised by Guinness World Records as the worlds oldest woman, receives a birthday cake during her 115th birthday celebrations at Kurenai Nursing Home on March 5, 2013. (Getty Images)

It's easy to live to be 100, according to the people who have already done it. But how about topping the 125 mark? Last weekend, a woman in Mexico named Leandra Becerra Lumbreras laid claim to being the world's oldest living person at 127.

Lumbreras, like many others of this advanced age, falls under the category of claimant because during her long life she lost her birth certificate and cannot prove her claim. This means that Guinness does not recognize her achievement. The title of oldest human still technically belongs to Misao Okawa, pictured above, who is a girlish 116 and lives in Japan.

Today, more than 50,000 people in the United States are bona fide centenarians. Access to medical care, food, and clean drinking water has allowed a much larger percentage of the population to live into their golden years. But almost every centenarian (or supercentenarian - the term for people over 110) has advice on how they got that way. We decided to put together a foolproof* daily schedule for you to follow so that you, too, may live to meet your 55 great-great-grandchildren.

*It is not foolproof.

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