NEWS - SuperCentenarian Mama Agba Agnes Fenton Credits Prayers And Some Alcohol For Longevity

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 Agnes Fenton

Mama Agba!

On Saturday 1st August, she celebrated her 110th birthday. Permit me to address this incredible most senior of citizens correctly - in this wonderful world of ours Agnes Fenton is a Great-Great-Grandma, Great-Grandma, Grandma, Mum, Mama and Mother. On my ancestral part of the planet, she is delightfully and honorably called Mama Agba meaning Big/Enormous/Grand/Magnificent/Senior Mama. 

Yoruba culture dictates certain respectful manners must accompany entering her presence: we the girls/ladies must kneel down (not curtsy) while the boys/gentlemen prostrate (not bow their heads) or at the very least their hands must touch their toes, shoes or ground in order to greet Mama Agba. All of which must be done first thing in the morning, every opportunity in between and last thing at night. She will be handled with cotton/lace/silk gloves, primped, pampered and waited on until her final breath. 

We are informed by The Record that there are 7 billion people living in this world, only 600 of which are 110 years or older. 

Mama Agba Fenton of Englewood, New Jersey, hears, sees, reads, watches TV, listens to the radio and goes out with friends. She gets a lot of sleep and is very prayerful. There are no serious health problems to write of. Mama Agba enjoys eating sweet potatoes, green beans and chicken wings. 

After a benign tumor was discovered, upon doctor's advice, Mama Agba began to drink three beers (Miller High Life). At the time, she was already drinking one shot of whiskey (Johnnie Walker) daily and saw no reason to stop. Such was her consumption for the past 70 years. However, very recently, she stopped drinking on the advice of her healthcare givers since her food intake has somewhat decreased.  

Mama Agba has been a participant in the New England Centenarian Study for the last 5 years. The Project Manager of the study, Stacey L. Anderson, PhD, was not able to comment on whether alcohol played a role in longevity. Her comments were "I have found that centenarians have a wide array of reasons to explain how they have succeeded in living such long lives from eating healthy foods to staying engaged with life, to strong spiritual ties, to abstaining from alcohol and even occasionally there are those who attribute it, in part, to drinking alcohol in moderate amounts....In terms of personality we have found that centenarians on average tend to be agreeable and low in neuroticism and that they don't dwell on hardships that they have lived through. For supercentenarians (110 years or older), genes appear to play an increasing vital role to reaching these extreme old ages and perhaps even in the presence of less than ideal health habits." 

God bless Mama Agba and all the other SuperCentenarians and Centenarians in our beautiful, wonderful world. 

(c) NorthJerseyNews.com/The Record

(c) JuicyChitChats 2015 [Friday 7th August] 

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