LOS ANGELES – Although she liked her bacon crispy and her chicken fried, she never drank, smoked or fooled around, Gertrude Baines once said, describing a life that lasted an astonishing 115 years and earned her the title of oldest person on the planet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090911...t_oldest_person

Bacon, fried chicken and ice cream. Yumm! LOL

So, if she ate bacon, chicken and ice cream and now she's dead, hmmmm, I wonder how long she would have lived if she had not eaten that.... I guess we'll never know...

It was clearly the bacon that was the secret to her longevity

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Walter Breuning learned to read by kerosene lantern, remembers his grandfather telling him about fighting in the Civil War, and cast his first presidential ballot for Woodrow Wilson.

The 112-year-old resident of Great Falls, Mont., apparently became the world's oldest man when 113-year-old Henry Allingham of England died Saturday. Breuning was born Sept. 21, 1896.

Now living at the Rainbow Retirement Home, Breuning takes one aspirin and eats two meals a day. He strolls the halls wearing a suit and tie and still walks the ramps to his second-floor apartment.

Breuning said he's more grateful for his health than he is for a world title.

"If you're in good health, you've got everything there is," he told the Great Falls Tribune.

Steve Hartman presents this weeks Assignment America where 112-year-old Walter Breuning proudly stands as the oldest man currently living in the nation.

Interview Here

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Note to self...If I ever get that old, I am taking up smoking and eating ice cream and candy bars and drinking nothing but margaritas for every meal. I mean, why the heck not?

It was at least the secret to her smile.

I like that!!!!