World's Oldest Woman dies at 115

The world'soldest woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born, has dies at 115.
Maria se Jesus died in an ambulance near the central Portuguese town of Tomar, town council officials said.
She is a Guiness Book of World Records as the World's oldest woman. That Title now falls to American,114 years old Gertrude Baines, who live in Los Angeles Nursing Home.
Maria de Jesus was born in September 10, 1893, and wedowed at 57, outlived three of her six children, had 11 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren.
On friday she was taken to hospital because of swelling, after she ate her breakfast normally according to her daughter Maria Madalena. De Jesus was 115 years and 144 days old.
According to Dr. Stephen Coles a gerontologist of the Gerontology Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles, there are 82 women and 9 men verified being 110 or older. But he said there could be hundreds more in places like China, India, or Africa where they would not have caught the attention of the Gerontology Research Group, a small volunteer that tracks supercentenarians and verifies their birth dates through birth certificates and other documents.
Coles said the supercentenarians appear to share one trait that might account for their longevity- they come from families whose members are longlived.
"Whether they drink alcohol or not, it doesn't matter. Whether they smoke cigarettes or not, doesn't seem to matter," he said. "The thing that does seem to matter is that they chose their parents wisely." "It's in the genes. It's in the DNA," he said.
The new title holder of the World's oldest woman was Baines, born in Georgia on April 6, 1894. Her only daughter died at age 18. She spent most of her life in Ohio, worked as a housekeeper at Ohio State University in Columbus, Coles said. Coles asked the staff at Western Convalescent Hospital to tell Baines she is now the oldest living documented woman in the world.
"She is very healthy. Her only complaint, is arthritis in her left knee," She uses wheel chair, he said. "Baines was mentally sharp, saying " she doesn't forget anything."

Baines voted her last November Presidential Election, the Los Angeles Times reported.

BANANA CRAZE IN JAPAN

The Philippines should move faster and purposely to fill the shortage of bananas in the shelves of Japan, where the "Banana Morning Diet" has a big craze.
Due to the growing popularity of the Banana Morning Diet, Rep. Emmylou Talinio-Mendoza said that over the last six months, bananas have been flying off supermarket racks in Japan faster show they would be replenished.
Created by a pharmacist in Osaka, the Banana Morning Diet has become Fashionable in Japan on account of strong endorsement by celebrities there who have testimony about their sudden loss of weight.
The regimen starts with a banana with a glass of room temperature water for breakfast and anything for lunch and dinner. Desserts are not allowed after meals. A mid afternoon snack is fine. One must have a dinner at 8 p.m. and go to bed before midnight.
A market of approximately128 million people, Japan is the buyer of more than half of the annual Philippine banana exports. Japan imported 970,000 metric tons (MT) of bananas in 2007, mostly from the Philippines and partly from Taiwan.
Cotabato is one of the Philippine province that producing banana and other tropical Fruits . Cotabato has a large plantation run by tropical growers, including Standard Philippine Fruit Corp., a subsidiary of Dole Philippines Inc.
After Ecuador, Philippines is the world's biggest banana exporter, with a global market share of 16%. Last year the country shipped out around 1.905 million metric tons of $440 million worth of banana, or P18.1 billion based on $1:41.14 exchange rate at the end of 2007.
The Philippines' 2007 export banana volume was only 40 percent of the 4.65 million metric ton shipped out by Ecuador of the same year. Ecuador was 34 percent of the global banana export market in 2007.
Besides Ecuador, the Philippines' other rivals in banana export markets are India, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Costa Rica and Mexico.