Mariano " Pops " Rotelli think you ought to have a bit of whiskey every day . That ’s what he does and he ’s still alive and socialize at the unlikely age of 107 .

" I ’ve had a shot of whisky in my coffee berry every dawn for 100 age , " he told theNewnan Times Heraldat his natal day company . " I went to the doctor three metre in 100 years . He ’s dead . I ’m still live . "

Rotelli , who live in   Senoia , Georgia , says there ’s no need to be finical about what variety of whisky he takes . He puts the whiskey and his morning java and drink whatever his   Word - in - law Bill Tyre brings him . It ’s normally Jim Beam Black , harmonize to the Newnan Times Herald .

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“ He ’s never worried about anything , ” enounce his daughter Nancy Tyre , stating exactly what you seize .

Rotelli joins a acquire chorus of people who have reached an sophisticated years and curse a little something to drink has help them keep going . Grace Jones , who is 109,credits whiskeyconsumption   for her advanced age . “ I do n’t drink , but I have a niggling drop of whisky every night , ” she says .

Then there ’s 103 - year - old Mildred Bowers , who Thrillist wrote about previously . She has a simple bit of advice for everyone:“Have a beer . "

It might not be heavy skill , but you should always respect your elders . So , you should credibly have a drink .

Though it may be prudent to be skeptical of this wisdom . While there are some field of study that suggest that moderate alcohol consumption could facilitate best Father-God time , there ’s a recent study that call into question those conclusion .

A 2016 reviewof 87 long - term written report by a team of researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health indicate that " a disbelieving situation is warranted in sexual congress to the evidence that small - volume ingestion is associated with net health benefit . " But a wholesale review of studies is n’t almost as much fun as anecdotic grounds that a small whisky in the morning is healthy . esteem your elders .

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