Random Health & Wellness Experts Who Lived the Longest (20 items)

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  (#6) Olga Kotelko

  • Dec. at 95 (1919-2014)

  If you ever find yourself saying that you're too old for something, perhaps you need to take a look at Olga Kotelko. Olga was still a track star right up until the time of her death, competing in many different activities. She has 37 standing athletic records to her name, and always took the opportunity to speak out about health, even in books and videos. She died in 2014, and was still competing in the same year she passed. 
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  (#10) Jean Nidetch

  • Dec. at 91 (1923-2015)

  Though a business entrepreneur, Jean Nidetch is also something of a health guru. This woman went out of her way to lose weight by experimenting with numerous fad diets and eventually created her own. She then founded weight-loss support groups, which eventually morphed into her business: Weight Watchers. She died in Parkland, FL, in 2015 at the age of 91. 
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  (#20) Hippocrates

  • Dec. at 83 (459 BC-376 BC)

  One of the greatest Greek physicians of all time, Hippocrates was pretty revolutionary. He was the first to suggest that what you ate had an impact on your health, and was sometimes quoted as saying "Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food." There are no exact dates for his birth and death, but he might have lived until 90. Considering he did this in the BC era, that's pretty impressive. 
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  (#12) John Harvey Kellogg

  • Dec. at 91 (1852-1943)

  If you've heard of Kellogg's cereal before, then you know well of this man's legacy. However, what you probably didn't know is that he originally made corn flakes as a health food, and was a huge proponent of physical wellness. He was an avid vegetarian and had strict nutrition and exercise routines, which he taught others at his sanitarium at Battle Creek. He died in 1943 at age 91. 
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  (#1) Zheng Ji

  • Dec. at 110 (1900-2010)

  When the world's oldest professor of nutrition and the founder of nutrition studies in China lives to the age of 110, you know he's doing something right. Zheng Ji died in 2010 of a lung infection, leading us to ask: if he hadn't gotten the infection, how long could this pioneer of nutrition have lived for?
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  (#18) Mila Rechcigl

  • 88

  What doesn't this guy do? He's worked in biochemistry, nutrition, cancer research, history, genealogy, and more. His work, particularly in food science, is still changing the way we eat, exercise, and live. The number of books he's published on the subject is impressive, and he's still kicking at 85. Who knows what he'll do next?

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