World's oldest human reveals secret - breathing!
A 113-year-old Dutch woman has become the oldest registered living person after the previous title holder died in Puerto Rico.
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper assumed the title when Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan died at the weekend of pneumonia, aged 114, the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group confirmed.
The group verified her age for the Guinness Book of World Records.
Van Andel-Schipper was born in Smilde, Netherlands on June 29, 1890, the same year as US President Dwight D Eisenhower, British crime writer Agatha Christie and American comedian Groucho Marx.
She still enjoys the traditional Dutch speciality pickled herring every day and has an occasional drink.
Van Andel-Schipper joked that the real secret to long life was ”breathing.”
A supporter of Dutch football team Ajax, she lives in a home for the elderly in the town of Hoogeveen and complained that the other residents were “hicks who don’t understand soccer.”
