Elim­i­nate junk foods from your di­et. That's the ad­vice from Al­fred Liv­er­pool who cel­e­brat­ed his one-hun­dredth birth­day on June 30th . Ac­cord­ing to the new cen­te­nar­i­an, con­sum­ing fresh foods and fruits, and avoid­ing junk food is his se­cret to longevi­ty. 

The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment: 

Elim­i­nate junk foods from your di­et. This is the ad­vice of Al­fred Liv­er­pool who cel­e­brat­ed his one-hun­dredth birth­day on June 30th . 

Ac­cord­ing to the new cen­te­nar­i­an, con­sum­ing fresh foods and fruits, and avoid­ing junk food is his se­cret to longevi­ty. Mr Liv­er­pool al­so not­ed that ex­er­cise played a ma­jor role in his at­tain­ing the age of one hun­dred 

 “I wake up at 7 am every day, and ex­er­cise by ei­ther walk­ing the com­mu­ni­ty or us­ing the spin bike. I spend the rest of the day watch­ing games shows, west­erns, news or play­ing lot­to.” The fa­ther of five, two daugh­ters and three sons, grand­fa­ther of eleven and great-grand­fa­ther al­so not­ed that “fam­i­ly al­ways comes first.” 

Fur­ther stat­ing that he is proud of the suc­cess­es of his chil­dren and grand­chil­dren. With many years of ex­pe­ri­ence, Mr. Liv­er­pool’s ad­vice to the younger gen­er­a­tion is to “Lis­ten to your par­ents and be­lieve in God so you can stay on the straight path.” 

Mr. Liv­er­pool was vis­it­ed by Ms. Nyi­i­da An­drews, In­spec­tor I of the Di­vi­sion of Age­ing who pre­sent­ed him with his Cer­tifi­cate of Ho­n­our and Achieve­ment, birth­day cake, spon­sored by the Kiss Bak­ing Com­pa­ny and a fruit ham­per, spon­sored by NAMDE­V­CO. 

The Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices en­cour­ages fam­i­ly mem­bers and loved ones, Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment, Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives, friends, and neigh­bours to salute our na­tion’s cen­te­nar­i­ans by reg­is­ter­ing for them for the Na­tion­al Cen­te­nar­i­an Pro­gramme. Per­sons may vis­it the Min­istry’s web­site at www.so­cial.gov.tt and com­plete the on­line form or print a down­load­able form for com­ple­tion. 

Com­plet­ed forms may be dropped off at the near­est So­cial Wel­fare Of­fice or emailed to the Di­vi­sion of Age­ing at opic@so­cial.gov.tt. For more in­for­ma­tion, per­sons may con­tact the Di­vi­sion of Age­ing at 623 – 2608; Ext 2001 to 2009 or 800- OPIC (6742).