One of California’s oldest living people, George Johnson lived to be 112 all on sausages and waffles thus defying my previous post that longevity has more to do with a person’s life exposures than their genes.
Dr. L. Stephen Coles, founder of the Gerontology Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles:
A lot of people think or imagine that your good habits and bad habits contribute to your longevity. But we often find it is in the genes rather than lifestyle.
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.
George Johnson died of pneumonia on August 30, 2006.
First seen at Genes & Drugs
Inside Bay Area, September 5, 2006
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Bald Man: LOL You got a point there.
Imagine how long he might have lived with a few vegetables in his diet!