Misao Okawa, the world’s oldest woman celebrated her 115th birthday on Tuesday in a Japanese nursing home, receiving flowers and relishing her favourite mackerel sushi dish.
Okawa from western Japanese city of Osaka, received flowers and her favourite food — vinegar-pickled mackerel — from staff at the nursery home where she lives.
“Thank you, everyone. This is a big bouquet of flowers,” she was quoted as saying by Kyodo News agency. Last week, Okawa was recognised as the oldest living woman in the world by Guinness World Records.
Okawa, the daughter of a kimono merchant, was born in 1898 and married in 1919. She had three children, two of whom — a son and a daughter — are still alive and in their 90s.
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‘People who exercise sleep better’
New York: People who exercise, even lightly, sleep better at night, according to a new US survey. Among people who said they engaged in light, moderate or vigorous physical activity during the week, 56 to 67 per cent reported that they “had a good night’s sleep”, almost every night on week nights, found the poll conducted by National Sleep Foundation in US.
By contrast, just 39 per cent of people who did not exercise at all reported sleeping this well on week nights. Those who exercise were also less likely to report sleep problems compared to non-exercises. Just 8 per cent of people who exercised vigorously said they had difficulty falling asleep almost every night. The survey included 1,000 US adults ages 23 to 60. Close to 50 per cent of participants were light exercisers, 25 per cent were moderate exercisers, 18 per cent were vigorous exercisers, and 9 per cent were non-exercisers. — PTI