Not elder law: Man lived to 112 on sausage-and-waffles diet

Johnson, considered California’s oldestliving person at 112 and the state’s last surviving World War Iveteran, had experts shaking their heads over his junk food diet.

“Hehad terrible bad habits. He had a diet largely of sausages andwaffles,” Dr. L. Stephen Coles, founder of the Gerontology ResearchGroup at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Friday.

The 5-foot-7, 140-pound Johnson died of pneumonia Wednesday at his Richmond home in Northern California.

“A lot of people think or imagine that yourgood habits and bad habits contribute to your longevity,” Coles said.“But we often find it is in the genes rather than lifestyle.”

Johnson,who was blind and living alone until his 110th birthday when acaregiver began helping him, built the Richmond house by hand in 1935.He got around using a walker in recent years.

Read the rest of this amazing story at MSNBC.

Then head out to IHOP for a late-night snack…