On April 25, according to Japanese official sources, Japanese woman Kane Tanaka passed away last week, the 119-year-old woman once suffered from colon cancer at the age of 103, but cancer did not beat her, she has a long life of special love to eat sweets, especially candy and chocolate, but also like to drink Coke, even with these "vices", she became one of the "world's longest-lived people".
Her long lifespan is really contrary to the science we have received.
After eating sugar and drinking Coke all his life, but becoming a person who died at the age of 119, Kana Tanaka was really enviable.
According to Japanese official reports, Ms. Tanaka died in a local nursing home in Japan on April 19.
According to a social media tweet posted by Ms. Tanaka's family on April 13, since the beginning of 2022, the centenarian Kanai has been "hospitalized and discharged from the hospital many times", and it is in this back-and-forth that the candy-loving grandmother celebrated her 119th birthday earlier this year.
Before her death, the old lady once told everyone in a tweet posted by her family: "I have the support of many people to live to this day." I hope you can continue to live happily, (and) stay happy and energetic. ”
According to the data, Tanaka Kanai was born on January 2, 1903, the year that a pair of brothers surnamed Wright first tried to fly in the sky with an airplane.
In terms of place of birth, Tanaka Kana was a native of southern Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, tanaka was the surname of her later husband, and she was the seventh child of Kumakichi's family when she was in the family.
Xiong Ji's seventh child, Kanai, was born prematurely and grew up feeding her little by little on breast milk.
Before World War II, she and her husband Hideo sold rice cakes in a small shop.
After her husband and son were killed in the war, she continued to work in the store until she retired at the age of 63.
After her retirement, Ms. Tanaka ushered in a quiet old age, living in a nursing home in Fukuoka, eating and wearing, and spending her daily leisure time, famous for devoting herself to board games and mathematics.
Her daily "work schedule" consists of getting up at 6 a.m. and studying math and practicing calligraphy in the afternoon.
There is also playing one of her favorite pastimes - Othello games, although old and old, but Tanaka Kana's brain is still very good, is a board game expert in the nursing home, the nursing home staff is not her opponent, often can not play her.
The so-called Othello game, is a kind of black and white game, two people against each other, in the 64-grid chessboard from the center of the two black and white a total of four pieces, on the two sides take turns to play, each time you put down the pieces must be able to eat each other's pieces, and finally the board is full, the number of people is the winner.
Judging from the certificate, on March 9, 2019, Tanaka Kanai received the guinness of the World Records and certification, becoming the oldest and longest-lived person in the world.
According to Japan's own news media reports, Mrs. Kanai became the world's longest-lived person in July 2018, whether it was the summer of the previous year or the spring of the following year, in short, Mrs. Kanai said that this was one of the happiest moments of her life.
The Guinness Book of World Records speaks of this impressive grandmother.
She loves sweets, and on the day she received her Guinness World Records Certificate, everyone congratulated her and gave her a box of chocolates.
After receiving the gift, Mrs. Kanai immediately opened it and chewed it happily.
Old age is not without twists and turns.
At the age of 103, Mrs. Kanai was diagnosed with colon cancer, but the cancer did not take her away, but coexisted with the host.
At the age of 107, the son of Mrs. Kanai also wrote a book about his mother, "At Good Times and Bad Times, 107 Years Old."
In the book, Kanai discusses her life and what kind of life she lived with the reader, and also talks about longevity.
She says she loves candy, drinking three cans of canned coffee a day and drinking plenty of non-alcoholic beverages.
Even in the last days of her life, the fun-loving old lady continued her daily routine, eating chocolate and drinking Coke.
What an example of what makes a medical person jump.
According to statistics, as of 2017, the number of residents aged 90 and above in Japan exceeded the 2 million mark.
According to the World Bank, Japan currently has the largest elderly population in the world, with about 28% of the population over the age of 65.
Of course, outside of Japan, there are also long-lived people, such as the Queen of England.
In addition, the longest-lived person recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records is the French woman Jeanne Louis Carman, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.