By Selwyn Duke

Virginia Pair Witherington turned 105 on Monday, and credits her longevity to taking care of herself — in her case, this includes eating a large amount of chocolate. To be precise, Macon’s Telegraph writes that “Witherington has previously credited her long life to living well and eating a lot of chocolate. She also loves Whopper Juniors and pizza,” according to close friend Mary Ussery. Well, I think Burger King just found its next marketing push.

Whether or not Georgia resident Witherington is one in a million to her friends — and she surely looks good enough to be — she’s certainly one in 6,000. That’s the ratio of people who live to be 100. So Witherington is rare, indeed. But her centenarian diet? Well, maybe not so much.

America's oldest World War II veteran and the oldest man in America, Richard Overton, has Witherington beat — not just in age but also lifestyle. Overton recently turned 112 and has been smoking since he was 18. “I smoke at least 12 Tampa Sweet cigars a day” (there’s another marketing push), Overton told the Wall Street Journal in 2015.

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