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Originally Posted by senior citizen
Why don't you research the life of George Beverly Shea?
We heard last evening on the t.v. news that he had passed. Age 104.
What a GORGEOUS singing voice. There was a short segment of Mr. Shea singing "How Great Thou Art"......just beautiful. I used to love to listen to him sing on the Billy Graham shows years ago.........
He probably didn't watch every morsel he ate........but led a life of faith.
Your faith can be in anything you wish it to be.......but we all have to believe in a higher power of some sort. It isn't food.....believe me.
I would say a peaceful heart and soul ranks high on the list........
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I went to a book signing about 3 or 4 years ago at All Booked Up. A man had written a book of religious poems and he was 106 years old. He was eager to show me how good his memory was so he asked me to follow along in the book as he recited one of his long poems. And he said he was in good health. He must be close to 110 by now.
I don't know how much religion helps but it certainly doesn't hurt. One book I read said that it's not so much the religious aspect as it is belonging to a support group. If you belong to a church, you have a support group. In place of that, one could belong to a club which would supposedly accomplish the same thing.