bars of chocolate every week
Cocoa-nut: Peggy Griffiths has been eating chocolate
bars every day since she was young
Peggy Griffiths in her twenties
For as long as she can remember, Peggy Griffiths has had a sweet tooth.
And after eating 30 bars of chocolate a week for the last decade, it is a miracle the 100-year-old has any teeth left.
She even owned her own sweet shop in the 1930s - until it closed down after she ate all of the profits.
A lover of the sweet treat ever since she ate her first one as a five-year-old girl, the centenarian now swears by its health benefits.
Speaking from the nursing home where she now lives, she said: 'When I was young I could go into a shop and buy a bar of chocolate with my pocket money.
'It only cost tuppence and tasted exactly like it does now.'
Her daughter Eileen Osborne, 69, added: 'When mum was a little girl, her mother told her that sweets were bad for you but chocolate was good.
'Ever since then she only ever ate chocolate, never any of the other snacks on offer.
'She absolutely loves it. In the past ten years she has eaten her way through 30 bars per week. We're always told too much chocolate isn't good for you - but it has got her to her 100th birthday.
'Her passion is Cadbury Dairy Milk - all her life she has eaten vast quantities of it.'
Mrs Osborne's said her mother's spell as a professional confectioner ended on a sour note however.
She said: 'During the 1930s my mother ran a sweet shop. They didn't have the same bars as we do nowadays, but they did have these 7lb boxes of Cadbury chocolate drops.
'Every time she walked by them she would scoop her hand in and eat a load of them.
'When there were no customers and she was bored she would pop a few in her mouth too.
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