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Betty White Says the Key to Her Diet Is 'to Avoid Anything Green'
Food & Wine ^ | December 29, 2021 | Mike Pomranz

Posted on 12/29/2021 5:55:43 PM PST by nickcarraway

Here's a tip for all you soon-to-be-centenarians out there: If you want to make headlines, have a good answer locked and loaded for the secret to your longevity. Not something boring like love and happiness; something wild and fun. Examples that have worked in the past: a daily Guinness, Hershey's chocolate, and Johnnie Walker. (Another tip: Plugging a specific brand is a good way to get free stuff!)

Of course, Betty White – who turns 100 on January 17 – doesn't need any help making headlines. And clearly, the lifelong actress knows a thing or two about entertaining answers for interviews. So what was White's response when People recently asked about her dietary regimen at 99 years old? "I try to avoid anything green," she joked. "I think it's working."

That's not to say White didn't also have a slightly more straightforward answer up her sleeve: "I always find the positive," she also told the magazine.

However, it may have been fellow actress Sandra Bullock – who worked with White in the move The Proposal – that spilled the beans on one of White's other big secrets to making it to 100. Bullock told People that she hoped White would celebrate her birthday "the same way she has celebrated every day of her life with humor, kindness and a vodka on ice, toasting to the fact that she's a badass who has left us all in the dust."

Does this imply that White enjoys a daily tipple? It's hard to say. Bullock might just be playing up the humor. And yet, in 2018, White told Parade that she had a love of vodka and hot dogs, "probably in that order." And in 2020, an unnamed friend (ostensibly not Sandra Bullock) told Closer Weekly, "Betty loves to joke that vodka keeps her young" – though the friend later added that White's "not really a big drinker."

Still, a regular drink has worked for Queen Elizabeth II – who turns 96 in April (despite recently being told to cut back). And another thing worth noting: Vodka definitely isn't green.


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 100centenarians; bettywhite
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1 posted on 12/29/2021 5:55:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

This might actually happen;

Betty White reading the newspaper: i see Keith Richards died today

Giving him a run for the money here


2 posted on 12/29/2021 5:59:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway
She is a character! Good humor keeps you young!


3 posted on 12/29/2021 6:01:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: nickcarraway
Stay away from absynthe. Got it.


4 posted on 12/29/2021 6:06:32 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: nickcarraway

They’re really jumping the gun on her birthday for quite some time now. I hope she makes it.


5 posted on 12/29/2021 6:11:35 PM PST by Trillian
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To: nickcarraway

Fun Fact:

Betty White used to be Betty Gray, until she fought and defeated the Balrog and was transformed.


6 posted on 12/29/2021 6:18:14 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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7 posted on 12/29/2021 6:29:04 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I remember when the eagle brought her back.


8 posted on 12/29/2021 6:30:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
To quote Garfield, who describes Jon's grandma in Garfield's Thanksgiving Special by the following: "They just don’t make them like that anymore."
9 posted on 12/29/2021 6:50:58 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: nickcarraway
"Avoid Anything Green'"

Quite right. Never eat anything that wasn't born with a face.

10 posted on 12/29/2021 7:03:17 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: nickcarraway

Though I have never given it a second thought, she was a bright and funny 18 year old the year I was born. I did think she was bright and funny when I was 25 and hoping I would make it to thirty. And so it has been for the next 57 years...so, now, she contemplates 100 years, bright and funny as she has always been and I am creeping inexorably along toward 83, moaning and groaning...but always looking forward to hearing about her bright and funny exploits. She has always made me laugh...her insights are often brilliant even as she pours more laughter from her soul. Lucky us.


11 posted on 12/29/2021 7:05:51 PM PST by Bodega (Ready to secede now before it's too late.)
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To: nickcarraway

Yes, she’s quite a lady.


12 posted on 12/29/2021 7:14:07 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t eat vegetables and I am 60. Works for me.


13 posted on 12/29/2021 7:19:24 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: nickcarraway

Same with my gramps, he doesn’t like green vodka.


14 posted on 12/29/2021 7:29:04 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: nickcarraway; flaglady47; NautiNurse; seenenuf; Bodega; CatOwner; gundog; Trillion; ...
Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois (a Chicago suburb) only a few blocks from where I was born.

More years ago than I care to admit, I had a friend, Ruth, who had a large kennel attached to her home where she bred, raised, boarded, groomed, bought-and-sold and trained basset hounds for dog shows. Her kennel was located in a Chicago suburb near where I lived.

When Betty White, an avid animal lover and animal rights activist, was done with the California shooting of all episodes of "Golden Girls" in advance of the show's TV season, she would travel the country for months.....and she often was a judge for regional Dog Shows on these trips.

When she was in the Chicago area, she would always drop in to see our mutual friend, Ruth.....and danged if I wasn't invited for tea, sitting with the two of them in Ruth's dining room.....surrounded by three frisky house-bassets baying and begging at our tea table for bites of cookies.

From personal knowledge, Betty White was, and always will be a personable, lovely, intelligent and witty lady.....

.....and to boot, she was a Republican !

Leni

15 posted on 12/29/2021 8:38:53 PM PST by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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To: Maris Crane

Betty is a dog lover which makes her aces in my book.

But, don’t take her for anything more than a Democrat.\

Which diminishes my opinion of her.

Good Woman, and a Leftie.


16 posted on 12/29/2021 8:50:12 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: MinuteGal

What a great personal story! That must have been really fun and exciting. It’s always nice to meet famous people and realize they are just plain folks.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful story with us.


17 posted on 12/29/2021 8:56:06 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: Bodega
She's good. She even helped salvage this otherwise stinker of a movie:


18 posted on 12/29/2021 11:26:40 PM PST by Viking2002 (Whatever.)
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To: MinuteGal

Very cool. I briefly met her when I was in the band and we would cruise the “stars’” neighborhoods when we weren’t rehearsing. She was in her front yard, watering the grass & we talked for a while, her an a bunch of long-haired hippies.


19 posted on 12/30/2021 5:05:53 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: nickcarraway

At her age, she probably shouldn’t buy any green bananas.


20 posted on 12/30/2021 5:07:28 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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