The World's Oldest Person Is A 117-Year-Old Jamaican Woman Called 'Aunt V

function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReadyVidible); Violet Brown, a resident of Trelawny Parish in Jamaica, has been declared the oldest known person in the world.Born on March 10, 1900, Brown is 117 years and 38 days old. She inherited the title of worlds oldest person on Saturday, after the death of Italian Emma Morano, who was 117 years and 137 days old.Brown, affectionately known as Aunt V, does not eat pork or chicken, and enjoys sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, breadfruit, and fruits, especially oranges and mangoes, according to the Jamaican Observer.Browns eldest son is 97 years old, which could possibly make him the oldest living person in the world with a parent who is also alive.On Saturday, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness tweeted his congratulations to Brown:The world's oldest human is Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on March 10, 1900. Congrats Violet. pic.twitter.com/AnjXdHK1Kz Andrew Holness (@AndrewHolnessJM) April 15, 2017 In a 2010 interview with the Jamaican Gleaner, the then-110-year-old Brown revealed her secret to long life.Really and truly, when people ask what me eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken, she said, and I dont drink rum and dem tings. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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