María Félix is an 116-year-old great-great-grandmother who had 10 children and has 20 grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren, and 23 great-great-grandchildren. Her secret to leading a long life is eating healthy, even though she doesn’t deprive herself of drinking some beer once in a while.
This lady is from Jalisco and grew up in Zacatecas eating foods from the region. “What’s helped is cactus, pointleaf manzanita, purslane and amaranth,” she says. For many years she ate these foods which are locally grown in that part of Mexico, even though now she drinks soy milk which help her stay active and healthy.
Félix says that she’s not afraid of dying, and is not afraid of death which has come visit various times. “It stops by, gets in the middle, goes to the corner, passes to the other corner, it takes two or three, but it doesn’t look this way, I wonder why,” she jokes about death.
“Doña María as her friends call her was born on July 20, 1900, and she became an orphan from a young age. She says her father was killed during the Mexican Revolution, so she’s always been by herself, until she got married to her husband. She was married to him for 50 years and they had 10 children.
She continues to be in good health and doesn’t suffer from any chronic diseases, such as diabetes or hypertension and her lungs are also healthy. Once in a while, she drinks an alcoholic drink, including beer because she doesn’t deprive herself of having an enjoyable time.