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.
Apparently it’s not just a function of people looking younger because they are not burning the candle at both ends, so to speak,
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.
And now for a non-sequitur,
Couldn’t find a YouTube of the scene where Harpo pulls out of his coat the candle burning at both ends, but here’s the mirror scene instead,
Poor Hillary! Bubba’s going to live forever!