Meet A 117-Year-Old Jamaican Woman, Who Is The World’s Oldest Living Person….Why Is She Able To Live That Long[VIDEO]

A 117-year-old Jamaican woman who once a slave on a sugar plantation is the oldest living person in the world.

Violet Mosse-Brown credits her longevity to good genes and studying the Bible. She was born March 10, 1900, making her 117 years and 38 days old. She still lives in Duanvale, Trelawny, Jamaica, in the same house she was born, and which has been in her family for 200 years.

Brown is a former seamstress, domestic helper, and cane farmer. Her eldest child, 96-year-old Harold Fairweather, is believed to be the world’s oldest living person with a living parent. In her 2010 interview, Brown proudly shared that she was still able to make her bed, and remembered poems that she learned as a child.

In a 2010 interview with the , the then-110-year-old Brown revealed her secret to long life saying:

“Really and truly, when people ask what me eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken,” she said, “and I don’t drink rum and dem tings.”

In her 115th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II sent her a congratulatory letter.

She also attributes her long life to the good book, saying: ‘My faith in serving God, and believing strongly in the teaching of the bible.’

As for diet, a caretaker told the Jamaica Observer last year: ‘She likes fish and mutton and sometimes she will have cow foot, but she does not eat pork or chicken.’ She also likes sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, breadfruit, and fruits, especially oranges and mangoes.

The last oldest living person, Emma Morano, famously eschewed most fruits and veggies in favor of biscuits and had attributed her longevity to three eggs a day, two of them eaten raw. Even when doctors told her this wasn’t a good idea, she kept it up her whole life.

There are estimated to be 300 to 450 living supercentenarians in the world, though only 50 of those cases are known to the group and verified. The vast majority are women.

The next oldest person on the list is Nabi Tajima, who is 116 years and 256 days old.

Brown remains thankful to still be alive:  “If God gives me more life, I will take it.”