People who look young for their age 'live longer'

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People who look young for their age 'live longer'

Post by cronus » Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:01 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8411329.stm

People who look young for their age 'live longer'

People blessed with youthful faces are more likely to live to a ripe old age than those who look more than their years, work shows.
Danish scientists say appearance alone can predict survival, after they studied 387 pairs of twins.
The researchers asked nurses, trainee teachers and peers to guess the age of the twins from mug shots.
Those rated younger-looking tended to outlive their older-looking sibling, the British Medical Journal reports.

The researchers also found a plausible biological explanation for their results.
Key pieces of DNA called telomeres, which indicate the ability of cells to replicate, are also linked to how young a person looks.

A telomere of shorter length is thought to signify faster ageing and has been linked with a number of diseases.
In the study, the people who looked younger had longer telomeres.
All of the twins were in their 70s, 80s or 90s when they were photographed.
Over a seven-year follow-up the researchers, led by Professor Kaare Christensen of the University of Southern Denmark, found that the bigger the difference in perceived age within a pair, the more likely it was that the older-looking twin died first.

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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:28 am

Shame that it doesn't apply to mental age as well - or I'd live to be 500! :biggrin:
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Post by SteveB » Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:14 am

I found out that Florence Welch from Florence + The Machine is younger than me.

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Post by trdsf » Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:57 am

Kewl. I turn 50 in two months and still get a second glance from grocery clerks deciding whether I need to be carded or not for booze. :)
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Post by JimC » Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:05 am

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Post by klr » Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:37 pm

I find this research to be oddly comforting. :levi:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:40 pm

I looked young, until I got married.
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Post by klr » Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:45 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:I looked young, until I got married.
So much for the research that says single people die younger than married people. :smug:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:01 pm

klr wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I looked young, until I got married.
So much for the research that says single people die younger than married people. :smug:
Being nagged is more lethal than cigarettes.....

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Post by laklak » Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:13 pm

Married people don't live longer, it just feels that way. Imagine lying on a pile of fireants while being waterboarded. How long would 10 minutes feel like?
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:16 pm

I had a difficult time convincing "over 21" establishments that I was over 21 until I was about 25. It was so bad when I was 21 years old that I actually went out and got a second form of photo ID so that I would have additional proof beyond a drivers license that I really was over 21. I used to smoke and I would get checked for photo ID to by smokes until I was well over 30, and the smoking age was 18.

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Post by laklak » Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:25 pm

I looked very young for my age, I was routinely carded for both alcohol and ciggies till my 30s. Then I hit 50 and it was like burning Dorian Gray's picture.
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:28 pm

Yeah, I was asked for ID when buying beer at the supermarket last year. I became positively giddy, like a chick, at having been "carded." LOL.


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