Italian Emma Morano, last known survivor of 19th century, dies at 117:
In an interview with AFP last year, she put her longevity down to her diet.
“I eat two eggs a day, and that’s it. And cookies. But I do not eat much because I have no teeth,” she said in her home at the time, where the Guinness World Records certificate declaring her to be the oldest person alive held pride of place on a marble-topped chest of drawers.
Her dietary regime has intrigued the medical and scientific worlds.
The eldest of eight children, Morano outlived all of her younger siblings.
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