Either you are getting too smart or I’m not making these beauty science polls hard enough! A whopping 55% of you figured out that the headline about eating fruit was the fake. Read on for the explanations.
Divorce makes you look older – TRUE
Only 6% of you were fooled by this headline. The truth is that the stress of divorce does make you look older. According to a recent twins study published by Case Western Reserve University, people who had gone through a divorce looked 2 years older than their twin who hadn’t.
Researchers concluded that avoiding anxiety is a way to slow down your biological clock.
Losing weight makes you look older – TRUE
Only 5% of you believed this headline was fake but it’s real. According to more work done by Case Western Reserve University researchers, women who lose a lot of weight are perceived as older than their peers who haven’t. Of course, this only applies to women over the age of 40. Younger women will not look older if they lose weight.
Eating fruit makes you look older – FALSE
A full 55% of you figured out that we made this one up. While there is no evidence fruit makes you look younger, it is an important part of your diet and you should probably be eating more. The fake headline was inspired by this true story about how older people are not eating enough fruit.
Smoking makes you look older – TRUE
17% of you thought we were trying to fool you with this one but we weren’t. Smoking does make you look older! In fact, the term “smoker’s face” was added to medical dictionaries after a study demonstrated you could identify smokers from pictures of their faces.
Just another of the many reasons to stop smoking
Space travel makes you look older – TRUE
16% of responders thought this was fake but it’s true. I particularly liked the explanations in the comments about this story. According to astrophysicists, space travelers will be bombarded with radiation that will damage their DNA. This damage has been linked to accelerated aging.
So, did you get it right? Are we making these Beauty Science or BS polls just a little too easy? Leave a comment and let the rest of the Beauty Brains community know.
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Very Fringe of you
(the radiation from time travelling)
I still say in the long run divorce will make you look younger. Because you’ll be getting away from the stress of a bad, possibly abusive, marriage. And you’ll probably get some sort of plastic surgery before reentering the dating pool. LOL
@Jami – it may not make you look younger but it could certainly make you feel younger which in our eyes is much more important.
I can’t believe how many people I know who smoke. I’m only 26 but I’d say 3/4’s of my friends smoke. I wish that they’d quit, maybe this will be incentive.
If this doesn’t convince them, Moxie, I find it does help to tell them this – at least the men.
The tar from tobacco products likes to collect in soft tissues such as in the lungs and the sex organs. This causes a restriction of blood flow. The less blood flow, the bigger the problem of impotence. Which means smokers will eventually have to be on Viagra. Bob Dole takes Viagra. Do you REALLY want to have something in common with Bob Dole?
I don’t get why people smoke. It’s a proven fact that smoking not only kills the smoker, but 2nd hand – and now they’ve even proven 3rd hand – smoke kills everyone exposed to it. So you’re not only committing slow suicide, but also mass murder.
I may be fat, but at least my fat only hurts me. (Unless I trip and fall on a Smurf Village.) There’s no such thing as 2nd hand fat.