World’s Oldest Man Reveals Dieting Secret

by Spence Cooper on 25/09/09 at 12:51 pm

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At 5 foot 8 and 125 pounds, Walter Breuning, who turned 113 on Monday, is the world’s oldest living man, according to the “List of Living Supercentenarians”. Breuning is also considered the world’s oldest man by the Guinness Book of World Records, said Robert Young, senior consultant for gerontology for the Guinness Book.

Mr. Breuning, who resides at the Rainbow retirement home in Great Falls, Montana, eats just two meals a day and has done so for the past 35 years. He eats plenty of fruit, drinks lots of water, and has weighed the same for over three decades. Breuning limits himself to a big breakfast and modest lunch every day. He never eats dinner, and believes you should push back from the table when you’re still hungry.

“Everybody was poor years ago,” he said. “When we were kids, we ate what was on the table. Crusts of bread or whatever it was. You ate what they put on your plate, and that’s all you got,” Breuning said.

With all due respect to the world’s oldest man, evidence suggests eating four or five small meals a day provides the most health benefits and is associated with reduced obesity risk.

You can read quotes from a written version of the speech Walter Breuning gave recently at his 113th birthday party in the Rainbow retirement home ballroom.