{"id":23358,"date":"2025-12-27T07:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=23358"},"modified":"2025-12-27T07:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:27:43","slug":"what-are-the-secrets-to-a-long-and-healthy-life-a-longevity-expert-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=23358","title":{"rendered":"What are the secrets to a long and healthy life? A longevity expert reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There exist thousands of books that focus on longevity and healthy ageing, including bestsellers like <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Lifespan: Why We Age \u2013 and Why We Don\u2019t Have To<\/em> by David Sinclair, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity<\/em> by Peter Attia, and <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old<\/em> by Andrew Steele.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ethel May Caterham, who is the oldest person in the world at 116, lives in a nursing home in Surrey, England. She managed to become a \u201csupercentenarian\u201d \u2013 a person aged 110 or older \u2013 without any of the above.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Born in 1909, Caterham has lived through both world wars, the Great Depression, world-changing advances in technology and two major pandemics: the Spanish Flu and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Covid-19<\/span>, the latter of which she contracted and survived in 2020 at the age of 110. She has outlived her husband by half a century and both of her daughters.<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ethel Caterham meets King Charles shortly after her 116th birthday. Photo: Facebook\/The Royal Family\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/23\/a8ac61f8-2f45-4a90-a9b1-ebb14b4890d7_719b9a42.jpg\" title=\"Ethel Caterham meets King Charles shortly after her 116th birthday. Photo: Facebook\/The Royal Family\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">Ethel Caterham meets King Charles shortly after her 116th birthday. Photo: Facebook\/The Royal Family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">And she has not just lived a long life. Reports indicate that she remains in good health.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Her secrets to living to such an old age, she says, include never arguing with anybody, enjoying everything in moderation, saying yes to every opportunity \u2013 because you never know what it will lead to \u2013 and having a <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">positive mental attitude<\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3337449\/what-are-secrets-long-and-healthy-life-longevity-expert-reveals?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There exist thousands of books that focus on longevity and healthy ageing, including bestsellers like Lifespan: Why We Age \u2013 and Why We Don\u2019t Have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2731,10469,402,2702,10236,535,1725],"class_list":["post-23358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-expert","tag-healthy","tag-life","tag-long","tag-longevity","tag-reveals","tag-secrets","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}