After holding the title of the world’s oldest person for several months, Tomiko Itooka, 116, of Japan, passed away.

Tomiko succeeded the previous world record holder, a Spanish woman named Maria Branyas Morera, who passed away in August at the age of 117.

Itooka was born in May 1908 and passed away at a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, spanning nearly the entirety of the twentieth century and the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

The mayor of Ashiya made a statement after her death last Sunday (December 29), stating that “Ms. Itooka gave us great courage and hope throughout her long life.” I want to express my gratitude once more.

She had four children, two daughters and two sons, with her husband, Kenji Itooka, who died in 1979 after 51 years of marriage.

Even in her old age, she was an avid hiker, having climbed Mount Ontake twice in her youth. One son, one daughter, and five grandchildren survive her.

As for the key to her long life, she attributed it to eating bananas and drinking the Japanese dairy drink Calpis, so if you want to live to be 116 years old, you should try it.

The world now considers Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after my birth, to be the oldest person alive.

When someone achieves this age, there is tremendous interest in their capacity to live so long and the secrets behind it; for Itooka, it was bananas and a dairy drink, but her predecessor as the world’s oldest person, Morera, attributed it to eating a pot of yogurt every day.

Joao Marinho Neto, a Brazilian who is 112 years old, has been the world’s oldest man since Liverpudlian John Tinniswood passed away in November of last year at the age of 112.

Tinniswood attributed his longevity to luck, stating that ‘either you live long or you live short, and you can’t do much about it.’

He asserted that his long life was not solely due to luck, but also to moderation, a point Morera also brought up.

On the other hand, Emma Morano, the former world’s oldest person, recommended eating three eggs a day, two of which should be uncooked.