[STARLIT]

Sardinian siblings credit minestrone soup for world record age.

The nine Melis siblings have a combined aged of 818 and hail from area with highest concentration of centenarians in the worldThe oldest member of the Melis family, Consolata, will be 105 on Wednesday, while the youngest of her siblings, Mafalda, nicknamed "the Little One" by her older sisters and brothers, is 78.

"To have such a large number of living siblings with an average age of more than 90 years is incredibly rare," the Guinness World Records editor in chief, Craig Glenday, said of the Melises who hail from Perdesdefogu in the mountainous Ogliastra province............NIKK...this small description of the family is a few years old.

[Lakeside Granny]

If I still had quality of life I would like to live longer, sounds like this family does.

Years ago Dr. Bernard Jensen did studies of longevity, wrote a book, and I remember many older folks who were still going strong in their 90’s and older didn’t live in the US.

Our lifestyle with stress, wrong food, kills us in spite of our access to doctors and medicine.

[Rusty0604]

I love minestrone soup! I haven’t had any in awhile.