And the award of world’s oldest man goes to: Tomoji Tanabe of Japan.

Today he celebrated his 113th birthday!

So what keeps this man ticking? He says:

• Eating vegetables
• Drinking milk every day
• NO alcohol

Sounds like a healthy green diet to me.

He also loves fried shrimp, but I’m assuming that his lack of drinking alcohol makes the finger food not as fun to play with, so he’s going to  cut back.

According to the Yahoo! news article, “The Japanese are among the world’s longest-lived people, with the number of those aged 100 or older at a record 36,276, a government report last week showed.”

Maybe it has to do with their strict diet… at least that’s what it looks like for Tanabe.

Along with veggies and milk, I guess eating Japanese food like these below keeps them world record holders:

Wasabi Chocolate Bar

Aojiru - Green Vegetable Drink

Jibachi Senbei - Wasp Rice Crackers

Vanilla Ice Cream Ramen

If eating stuff like this will make me live to be 113 like Tanabe, then I say add an extra scoop of ice cream to my steaming  bowl of noodles!