Graduated from Hollywood High School Performing Arts Center.
Benito Martinez Detailed Biography -
Benito Martinez is a native of Cuba who claims to be the world's oldest living person by himself and the government of Cuba. Benito says he was born 1880 near Cavaellon in Haiti. He claims he came to Cuba via steamship in the 1920s when he was 45 years old, worked on the family ranch of Cuban president Fidel Castro and eventually settled in a small farming community outside Ciego de Avila. He puts his longevity down to healthy food — rice and peas, fresh vegetables and only the occasional drink of alcohol.
No actual record exists of his birth or has been produced of his life before he reached Cuba. Cuban experts said that they believed Benito to be probably around 119—comfortably older than the current official world record holder, Maria Capovilla, an Ecuadorian woman who is 116. Benito Martinez is the star attraction of the country's recently formed 120-Club, an organisation promoting healthy lives for Cuba's most elderly citizens.
Supercentenarian
Emiliano Mercado del Toro
Longevity
Longevity claims
Caloric restriction
