Live a long and happy life like Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Calment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
Jeanne Calment lived to 122. We thought we’d give you a few of her strategies.

Be a woman, we’ll it’s not exactly a choice for most of us, but if you are a woman you are not so likely to be killed in a war.
Jeanne lived through both the first and second world wars which were happening on her doorstep in France.
Being a woman helps you avoid some diseases and in the 20th century it was quite socially acceptable for women to not have a job,
in fact there was a whole subculture to embrace wealthy non working women.

Two cigarettes per day maximum. Jeanne Smoked for 96 years, from age 21 to age 117. She died at a 122, though smoking was not a cited cause.
Jeanne smoked longer than most non smokers live.
Jeanne signed a contract with her lawyer to sell her house on contingency basis,
which meant the lawyer (and then his widow) was paying her for a house for 32 years,
and paid double the price it was worth.

Enjoy your active hobbies, Jeanne liked tennis cycling along with rollerskating, swimming and opera singing.
Sounds like a great life, let’s all go do it!
Update:
If you found this article somehow unrelated we’ll explain, we discovered this woman’s interesting life while doing legal research, we stumbled onto the legal term ‘pur autre vie‘, a contract based of the lifespan of another not oneself. Of course Jeanne was a staggering example of this legal principle. This brings us to a concept, who has the right to make a contract for the life of another? Now that’s where it gets interesting.
Posted on April 25, 2013, in Education, Europe & EU, Health and Healthcare, Photo. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
I have an aunt who is on a similar path, curiously she also eats lots of chocolate.
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Lots of Exercise, lots of chocolate, olive oil and no more than 2 cigarretes per day. Oh, and it helps to screw your lawyer! This is gold!