<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I like your grand-mother and am tempted to follow her recipe for longevity with wine and tea. Difficult though to avoid water with exercise and when temperatures are extreme - but then I suppose you grandmother did not exercise: it might have taken a few years off her life span ;-D<br><div><div>On 8 Feb 2012, at 16:28, Stefano Vaj wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">On the anedoctical side, my grand-mother died at age 104, and for the last forty or fifty years or her life she did not drink any water. Red wine at meals, essentially, plus an occasional tea at 5 pm, say, once or twice a week. Very little other liquids, but those contained in food.<br></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>