I thought I'd heard it all; I mean all the secrets that are supposed to prolong your life. You hear them from people who are centenarians or thereabouts. If they have lived this long, I suppose they have earned the right to tell us what they think got them there in the first place. But did you know about the 'warm water rub me downs'. Well, that's just what I'm talking about. It was not too long ago that the 105 year-old Clara Meadmore told us the secret of her longevity was abstinence from sex (and indeed marriage). Well here comes another authority with this warm water stuff: this time it is a supercentenarian, Huo Liming, a healthy 111-year-old woman, who claims to have kept fit by rubbing down her whole body with warm water once a day for decades. The amazingly nimble Huo, who can still thread a needle and mend clothes cited it as one of the best ways of preserving her health when she was honored as the eldest person in Hebei province and one of the top 10 healthy centenarians in China. Well, may be it's no wonder not so many people make it to Huo's age: who would have even conjectured of warm water rubdowns to prolong life. We probably should compile centenarians' opinion of the factors that promote longevity - some really weird stuff we would find. The scientists will never guess or should they investigate these claims? I have my doubts; anecdotal at best.