Plains Township, Penn. resident Pauline Spagnola recently turned the century milestone all thanks to alcohol, which she revealed to be the reason for living as long as she has.
“A lot of booze,” Spagnola, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, told TV station WNEP.
While we don’t know if Spagnola practices a religion, she falls in line with recent research put together by two authors that found women who are religious add more years on to their ages because they reportedly involve themselves around people and different groups, according to Caring.com.
"There was a clear, similar trend among people who had civic engagements, were active in their communities, volunteered, and otherwise stayed connected, whether with families, friends, or coworkers," Leslie Martine, professor of psychology at La Sierra University and co-author of The Longevity Project, told Caring.com.
Researchers of the study, which spans eight decades, evaluated 1,500 people who came into the world in 1910.
