Milk Does A Body Good

Maybe there's something to those "Got Milk?" ads. Helen Barth celebrated her 108th birthday Wednesday at a suburban Rochester, N.Y., nursing home.The former substitute teacher doesn't credit any one thing to her longevity. But she said she consumed plenty of milk and treated herself to ice cream at bedtime.And she stayed active all her life, volunteering for various civic groups in the Rochester area. She swam frequently until she was older than 100, and lived on her own until she was 107.When asked what wisdom she has gained from living so long, Barth said the key to old age is to "mingle, be friendly and take things as they come."