Long life? I think we’ve cracked it | Catherine Shoard

From what I can make out, if one wants to live forever - or at least until 110 - you must head straight to your local hipster restaurant

There's a sign on Susannah Mushatt Jones's kitchen wall. It reads: "Bacon makes everything better." You could legitimately quibble with this. Not better for the pig, of course. Plus, what about concerns around the cholesterol and sodium content, as well as links between bacon and chronic pulmonary disease and diminished sperm morphology? But it'd be hard to argue to her face: Jones is the world's oldest living person. On Monday, when she turned 116, she credited her longevity to a regular breakfast of bacon and eggs. Regular as in she's eaten it every day for 100 years.

The fry-up turns out to be something of a staple for the supercentenarian. Charlotte Hughes (1877-1993) said her advanced age was down to a "stiff brandy and bacon and eggs". Ditto Edna Parker (1893-2008), who topped up with sausage. The spanner in the works is Emma Morano, who, alongside Jones, is the only person still alive who was born in the 1800s. Eggs? Yes, she says: ever since she was a teenager, she's had three raw ones every day. Bacon? Not so much.