It’s hard to believe it, but Annette Larkins
is actually 70 years old. As in, in these photos right here, she is 70!
She claims she has had no plastic surgery (you can tell – you don’t get
that glow from having lots of work done), even though she is not
opposed to it, so I guess when she turns 100 she will finally look 70!
Annette, who lives in Florida, has been eating completely raw for 27
years and attributes her youthfulness to this lifestyle. She grows all
her own food in her garden, which she calls her “fountain of youth,” and
she doesn’t consume any animal products. Nuts, sprouts, fruits,
vegetables, and seeds: that’s it! Everything is as natural as can be;
she even collects rainwater to water her plants. Up by 5:30 every
morning, Annette doesn’t get sick; she doesn’t ever even consume so as
much as an aspirin. And she even has two sons who are in their fifties!
Whatever she has been doing, it’s working; her husband does not eat this
way and he looks his age (and now he regrets not converting along with
her decades ago).
I thought my mom looks good at 70 – this woman looks like she’s in
her forties. Even though her results are unbelievable, I still don’t
think I can eat raw…How about just organic? What will that get me?!
Annette Larkins shows off her garden in her Miami-Dade County
backyard. It's full of fruits and vegetables. Every corner of her garden
has something that is edible. She also collects rainwater to drink and
water her plants.
Annette says the food in her garden is her 'Fountain of Youth.'
"I
am very vibrant, I have lots of energy, as I told you before, I am up
no later than 5:30 in the morning as a rule, and I am ready to go," she
said.
Annette's husband owned a meat store in the 1960s. That's
when she became a vegetarian. But as the years went by, she became a
raw vegan.
Annette says she does not eat animal products--
her food is unprocessed and uncooked. "My diet consists of fruits, nuts,
vegetables and seeds. I do a lot of sprouting of seeds and as you can
see from my garden and of course these are the raw foods that I eat."
Annette
also juices fruits and veggies. You name it, she can juice it.
Grapefruits, pineapples, even spinach. But not everyone in the Larkins
family eats and drinks this way.
Annette's husband Amos of
almost 54 years chose to continue to eat the way he did when they were
first married. "I really wish I would have done what she did," he said.
Amos
says people even wonder if Annette is his wife. "They will ask me 'what
am I doing with a young girl? or they will say 'you've got your
granddaughter with you,' things like that."
Amos takes prescription medicines daily for high blood pressure and diabetes. Annette says she does not even take an aspirin.
Annette says because friends and strangers kept asking her questions about her health and youthful appearance, she decided to publish two Journey To Health booklets, and she produced a DVD 12 years ago.
"The
Discovery Channel, they took sections of the booklet and translated
them into Spanish which is, by the way, my second language."
So how old is this size 4 beauty? Annette just turned 70-years-old.
Annette
says friends her age see the difference in her quality of life. "This
one lady who is my age, she was telling her friend, that I used to tell
them about eating and they would not listen and her response to that was
look at her now, and look at us."
Her husband says she is
vibrant person. "She is an amazing person, she does everything. I mean
she builds computers, makes all of her own clothes, grows her own food,
speak three languages, it's amazing."
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