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If you want to live forever, or at least as close to forever as possible, you may want to make coffee a good part of your daily ritual. Or at least that was my takeaway from the Dallas Morning News<\/a>\u2019 recent profile of Richard Overton, the oldest living American, turning the ripe old age of 112 last week.<\/p>\n Overton, also the oldest living U.S. veteran who actually served in World War II, was born in 1906, which the DMN notes was a year before Oklahoma officially became a state, or as we Texans call it, the better times (which reminds me of some old Texas wisdom: why doesn\u2019t Texas float away into the Gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks). When not meeting former presidents, athletes, and celebrities, the Austin resident spends most of his day sitting on his porch, waving at cars and taking photos with strangers who want to meet a living legend.<\/p>\n So what is the key to Overton\u2019s long life? I\u2019m no nutritionist but I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and say it is his rather strict diet. According to the article, Overton starts the day with something sweet, like pancakes, waffles, or cinnamon rolls and multiple cups of coffee \u201cwith three spoonfuls of sugar and a plastic straw.\u201d He enjoys peach cobbler and ice cream and can be found throughout the day sipping on either a Dr. Pepper or whiskey and Cokes\u2014his favorite drink\u2014while smoking one of his daily 12 Tampa Sweet Perfecto cigars. It is truly a life well lived.<\/p>\n And listen, I consider myself a healthy person: I limit my alcohol consumption, I exercise, I have a primarily plant-based diet. Until now, I had no idea why I did all those things. \u201cBlah blah blah health,\u201d sure. But after hearing Overton\u2019s story, I realize that I\u2019m living this way so that I can make it to the age where I can drink coffee and booze, eat sweets, and smoke cigars all day, and instead of everyone condescending to me about my health, they will just be like, \u201cgood for you\u201d and write some nice newspaper articles about me.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know exactly what that age is\u201470? 80? 90?\u2014but I know I want to make it there, and thanks to my 112-year-old role model and icon Richard Overton, I know exactly what I\u2019m going to do when I get there.<\/p>\n Zac Cadwalader<\/a>\u00a0is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.\u00a0Read more Zac Cadwalader\u00a0on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n *top image via the Dallas Morning News<\/em><\/p>\n The post At 112, The Oldest Living American Drinks A Lot Of Coffee<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you want to live forever, or at least as close to forever as possible, you may want to make coffee a good part of your daily ritual. Or at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,41],"tags":[63,45,65,47,61,49,59,67,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}