So I was interested to find out what sort of diet he had, since he lived until age of 101. But, while I was googling, I discovered he had seven heart transplants…SEVEN!
Now, I’m really interested to find out what he ate. Anyone knows where to get this info? He lived a public life, this info must be out there somewhere.
Rumor is that the elite received blood transfusions from young peoples’ blood (parabiosys). His family sponsors lots of research on longevity.
Just wondering how much he had to pay for all those hearts and how many others died because they couldn’t get one…
Seven? Wow! Interesting.
My great grandmother on my father’s side lived to 104. She died in 1964, before all the “heart healthy diet” baloney really took hold. She ate a traditional Eastern European Jewish diet–things cooked in schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) or butter, lots of full fat dairy, fish, meat and organ meats, a limited variety of vegetables cooked to death. Definitely bread and noodles and hot cereal like cream of Wheat in the mornings, pastries here and there, but dessert was rare and just as likely to be fruit–often stewed–as it was to be cake and cookies. A lot of stuff she ate would be called “heart attack on a plate” in the last 30 or 40 years. But she was independent and ambulatory until the day she died.
What conclusions could we draw from my great grandma? Omnivorous diet, high in natural fats, not very low carb, very little processed food had yet penetrated the market in her time. Unfortunately, my father didn’t inherit her longevity genes. He died at 67 from colon cancer, after having spent nearly 20 years on “heart healthy diets”.
Medical records are private and it can’t be substantiated, so SNOPES can’t say for sure it is FALSE.
I read somewhere that his philanthropic efforts gave away $900 million, which amounted to over $24,000 for every day he was alive.
You see a lot of women living that long but not usually a man. Good for him! I couldn’t find any reputable reports about the heart transplants.