CENTENARIANS AND MILK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1073, 8 March 1913, Page 4

CENTENARIANS AND MILK.

Most people have heard that the Bulgarians who use sour milk as an article of food have an astonishingly large proportion of centenarians among them. Professor Metchnikoff, who states that the bacilli of sour milk destroy the organisms which shorten human life, believes that most people could live to be a hundred years old if they adopted the Bulgarian diet. One of the secretaries to the peace delegation in London was M. Angleloff, whose grandfather died in 1907 at the age of 132 years, and was blessed with 26 children, two of them born during his tenth decade. “Of all the centenarians in Europe,” said M. Angeloff, ‘‘Bulgaria provides 75 per cent, and the other 25 per cent, are divided amongst the other countries. 1 atlribute our position to the sobriety of the nation in general. We are a very temperate people, and, being largely engaged in agricultural pursuits, we live in the open air. That is a great asset, and there is also the fact that we are not great consumers of meat. We are great vegetarians, and some of our poorer people live practically on vegetables and sour milk,” M, Angeloff’s grandfather was more than fifty years of age when the battle of Waterloo was fought*