Time to put on your thinking caps and see if you can figure out which of the following statements about things that make you look older are FALSE.
When you think you know the answer, go to the right column and enter your vote in the 41st Beauty Science or BS Poll.
Which statement is FALSE?
1. Divorce makes you look older
2. Losing weight makes you look older
3. Eating fruit makes you look older
4. Smoking makes you look older
5. Space travel makes you look older
If you aren’t sure or think you know, leave a comment and get hints from the Beauty Brains community.
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I say divorce. Because I would think eventually, after it was done, the stress of having a bad spouse being gone would make you look younger.
Space travel, probably. In a zero-g environment, I think the body fluids would puff the face up a bit more and smooth it out. Astronauts do tend to get stuffed up in space because of it.
I’m going with space travel, too. Just going across the country ages me considerably so I can only imagine what leaving the planet might do to me.
Fruit. Divorce definitely made me feel older, losing weight did to my friend, smoking = documented, space travel once done = the g’s stretch you skin (unless you go out and come back in a hundred years or so!!!)
llosing weight makes you look older because you lose “baby-face”
losing weight reduces the fat in your face and neck, so that makes you look older. smoking definitely. divorce might as it might make you depressed. space travel is hard on the body. i can’t see how fruit can have an effect.
What I’m saying is that space travel DOES NOT make you look older. The increase in fluids retained near the head will probably smooth out lines and make one look younger.
It also makes astronauts feel stuffed up while they’re in space, and they tend to like spicy foods more since the stuffiness makes their sense of taste duller. It’s like round-the-clock morning puffiness.
I would tend to think that eating fruit does not make you look older.
All of the above??
Divorce = Stress
Weight Loss = Loss of fatty tissues in face
Eating fruit= glycogenation
Smoking = Carcinogens, etc.
Space Travel= ????
Eagerly awaiting the answer brains : )
I think space travel is false since it’s the most questionable. I’m not sure how ppl would think fruits would make you look older, it has Vit. C which is supposed to promote good health and skin.
Eating fruit makes you look older is false.
Space travel could sure make you younger in a way (by making everybody else relatively older; see Twin paradox), but this is only in theory. I think that in practice it doesn’t work like that very well, though – truly massive amounts of energy would probably be needed to get visible results, but apart from that I imagine that space travel-related stress, lack of fresh food, the formidable space radiation and other things would cancel out the effect with little difficulty.
Sorry, me again.
I was just thinking that here on Earth, radiation is a huge factor in aging; since space radiation (that we cannot effectively shield people from) can do much more damage, space travel alone is (probably) guaranteed to make you older, at least with our current technology.
I think it’s interesting how many people vote for space travel – it’s probably the least familiar option; do people place higher hopes on new or less known aging “cures”?
Smoking definitely makes you look older. Right now, loosing weight would probably make me look older, as my face is full and wrinkles are almsot non-existent. People might actually guess my age within 2 years if I lost a lot of weight, instead of the now 10-12 minus the real age.
I still say divorce is the false answer.
We all know smoking makes you look older. I can see how eating fruit can do is as the action of eating can, I’m sure, cause wrinkles. Losing weight makes you look older. Space travel – all those g-forces pressing on your skin when leaving earth has got to do some damage. Not to mention you don’t have the earth’s ozone to protect you from the sun’s UV rays. All the training before hand I’m sure does damage.
Let’s face it, the astronauts don’t exactly look like spring chickens.
But divorce reduces stress in the end. Once it’s over you no longer have a bad spouse. It might be stressful during, but after it’s only stressful if they refuse to pay alimony or child support – and you can have the courts deal with that too. Plus some people go for plastic surgery once through so they can feel confident back in the dating scene. At the very least they spruce themselves up with a new hairstyle and teeth whitening.
So divorce, in the end, does not make you look older. Therefore that to me is the false one.
I think space travel is the one that’s false.
I would say eating fruit makes you look older is false. Many fruits are full of antioxidants.
I’m guessing space travel is false. Zero gravity = less sagging everywhere!
If losing weight makes you look older then getting divorced probably makes you look older. A lot of people lose weight during/after a divorce (and not just the 180 or so pounds of dead weight they just ditched.)
Everyone knows smoking makes you look older. Fruit seems like the obvious false choice so I’m guessing it’s not the right one either.
Can’t wait to see the answer!
I’ll be very surprised if the answer is *not* #3 – eating fruit.
I’d have to guess the false statement is “Fruit makes you look older.” But my hunch is also that I’ll be surprised by the answer.
I think it’s fruit, too. But that seems too obvious, as others have said…my runner-ups are divorce and space travel, i.e., the only ones I felt confident ruling out were smoking and losing weight.