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Warm water the secret to longevity: 111-year-old

(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-12 09:20

Huo Liming, a healthy 111-year-old woman, has kept fit by rubbing down her whole body with warm water once a day for decades.

Huo has religiously carried out the rubdowns every morning after first giving it a go shortly after waking many years ago. She cited it as one of the best ways of preserving her health when she was honored as the eldest person in Hebei province and one of the top 10 healthy centenarians in the country last week.

The amazingly nimble senior citizen can still thread a needle and mend clothes.

She has led a very simple life and has always got along well with her big family of 48 at her home in Wu'an, a city of Hebei province.

(Hebei Daily)