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<\/p>\nWHEN Donnazione Cargill visits the doctor, she's elated to see her blood pressure is the same as her 20-year-old daughter's.<\/p>\n
She's often mistaken for said daughter's sister, or her son's girlfriend, and finds the whole thing hilarious.<\/p>\n
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At 50, Donnazione, a mother of three and the grandmother to a four-year-old, claims to be America's most youthful granny.<\/p>\n
And she credits it to prioritizing her health above all else.<\/p>\n
A seven-time Illinois track and field state champion, the grandmother and athlete makes sure her fitness is front and center as she subsists on a strict clean diet and runs five-kilometer races on weekends.<\/p>\n
"I don't eat red meat, I do eat chicken and fish… I drink a lot of tea, I'm constantly drinking tea, I have glasses of tea in my fridge because I believe that keeps me youthful," she told The U.S. Sun.<\/p>\n
Born and raised in Jamaica, Donnazione explained that she discovered running in high school and had kept up the hobby ever since.<\/p>\n
Although she's no longer in school, she regularly trains to compete and keep herself active.<\/p>\n
"A typical training session is I'll go to the track, do a 15-minute warm up, then I'll do my stretches and my strides and do four 600 meters, four 400s, four 200s, and four 100s," she said.<\/p>\n
The track star also dabbled in Korean taekwondo, taking home a silver medal for Point Sparring at the Amateur Athletic Union Nationals in 2022.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n However, she was forced to take a hiatus from the sport thanks to a meniscus tear at the tournament.<\/p>\n "I hopped out of the ring due to the tear and that caused me to lose my gold medal and I haven't done taekwondo the whole year because I'm nursing my knee," she recalled of a championship.<\/p>\n Although the grandmother is temporarily retired from martial arts, she has picked up other hobbies to keep her youthful, such as thrifting for vintage dolls with her granddaughter.<\/p>\n "That's one of our favorite things to do, our bedroom is made up of all old dollhouses, it's like a fairytale world in there," she joked.<\/p>\n Donnazione credited her drive to succeed and her youthful spirit to her love and adoration for her motherland.<\/p>\n "I live in the mentality of the little girl that left Jamaica, I was 15 when I left. And I'm still 15, I'm still that little girl that left Jamaica because I miss Jamaica so much," she said.<\/p>\n "When I go back to my family, I'm still 15 because they way I look and the way I dress, I dress like a kid and act like one.<\/p>\n "Even though I have kids that are older now, when I'm not with my kids they think I'm the child and they're the grown-ups.<\/p>\n "It's funny because when I go out with my 25-year-old son, they think he's my boyfriend or my daughter is my sister," she laughed.<\/p>\n The 50-year-old believed that the key to looking and feeling young all started with a healthy and happy mentality.<\/p>\n "Mentally, you are what you think, I don\u2019t think old, I don\u2019t think anything old, I want to live to be very old, yes, but I\u2019m constantly thinking youthful," she said.<\/p>\n "I don\u2019t get sick because I pay so much attention to my own health and I do love myself, I know I\u2019m not what everyone wishes and desires but I\u2019m what I wish and desire."<\/p>\n At 50, the grandmother also added that her dreams were eternal and that she's constantly striving for something down the road.<\/p>\n "One day, I'm going to open up a Taekwondo school, especially for girls that have been through domestic violence because I too have been through that," she said.<\/p>\n "I want to empower girls and I think girl fighters are the coolest."<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/es_sky_comp.jpg\")
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