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Study: Women with more than two kids age faster than women with fewer (mega barf alert)
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 12/23/2017 | Najja Parker

Posted on 12/23/2017 6:16:54 PM PST by simpson96

Aging is inevitable. However, if you want to slow down the process, you should consider having no more than two children, a new report suggests.

To do so, they solicited more than 500 people to examine photographs of middle-aged women. The images were categorized into three sections: those with two to three kids, those with four to five and those with seven to nine.

After examining the results, they found that women with fewer children were seen as younger and healthier than those with more children.

In fact, the lowest scores were given to women with seven to nine children.

Why is that?

“Mechanisms behind the observed variation in facial appearance are not known but higher levels of oxidative stress among women with high parity may explain their faster aging and lower attractiveness in older age,” the authors said in a study.

Childbirth wasn’t the only factor considered. Scientists also factored in gestation, lactation and childcare, which they believe also contribute to higher levels of oxidative stress.

“These results suggest that costs of reproduction might affect women's physical appearance,” they said.

(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: aging; bitter; fleeting; lonely; motherhood; vanity
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1 posted on 12/23/2017 6:16:54 PM PST by simpson96
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To: Blue Jays

"...having double-digit number of kids is stressful..."


Well, no shyt, Sherlock!

2 posted on 12/23/2017 6:21:10 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: simpson96

Octomom must look like George Burns.


3 posted on 12/23/2017 6:23:02 PM PST by rey
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To: simpson96

And the drumbeat just keeps on going...


4 posted on 12/23/2017 6:23:09 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: simpson96

Stupid supposition and completely unsupported by observation...


5 posted on 12/23/2017 6:25:59 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: simpson96
1. Everyone gets old, if they don't die young.
2. Having children is a gift, and in addition to being a very, very important responsibility, it enriches life.
3. Being ‘successful’ in the ways society often defines (famous, high-profile job, wealthy) doesn't even begin to bring as much meaning to life as being surrounded by people who you love, and who love you.

So, not having kids because it might change your physical appearance would be a tragic mistake.

6 posted on 12/23/2017 6:27:49 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: simpson96

I would be interested in life expectancy for women who have had more than two, versus those who had one or two.

Further, I would be interested in comparing those results to those who have had one or more abortions.


7 posted on 12/23/2017 6:30:32 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: simpson96

This is just another narrative aimed at reducing the population of people who look like me.

The pill, “safe sex,” vasectomies, acceptance of acts that cannot result in pregnancy, delaying marriage for career, porn, restricting the size of families...cultural suicide.


8 posted on 12/23/2017 6:30:36 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: simpson96

Explain Hillary.


9 posted on 12/23/2017 6:35:46 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: rey
Octomom must look like George Burns.

Well, you certainly will never see either one in a bikini................

10 posted on 12/23/2017 6:36:04 PM PST by doorgunner69 (No video seems to happen a lot when they shoot somebody..........)
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To: simpson96

So, my grandmother who had 13 kids and lived to be 102, would have lived to 200 if she hadn’t?


11 posted on 12/23/2017 6:38:25 PM PST by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: simpson96

Anything they can do or say to make people have fewer children. They want to save Gaia.


12 posted on 12/23/2017 6:38:41 PM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: simpson96

She has 15 kids.

13 posted on 12/23/2017 6:39:47 PM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: simpson96

My great-grandmother bore eleven children, buried three of them, raised my mother from infancy, spent her life as a farm wife, and battled cancer for twenty years before dying at 78. She died before I was born, so my knowledge of her is from my mother and from a photo I have of her late in life. She had a kind and pleasant face, and looked very good considering what she had been through. Of course, she was of a breed of human being quite common in her day, and quite rare today.


14 posted on 12/23/2017 6:39:56 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Vendome

I grew up in a very large family.

It is hell on Earth for children.
It is children raising children, void of adults.
I wanted to be adopted out my whole life, but my parents only laughed and ridiculed.

Sorry, but the truth hurts.


15 posted on 12/23/2017 6:42:16 PM PST by TheNext (Fake Elections have no BALLOT PICTURES!)
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To: rey

There was an old lady
Who lived in a shoe

She had so many kids
Her uterus fell out.....OH!


16 posted on 12/23/2017 6:42:16 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: simpson96

EXCEPT if they’re Muslim or Mexican:

THEY can have 100 each safely.

Right..?

#Genocide


17 posted on 12/23/2017 6:42:24 PM PST by gaijin
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To: simpson96

That is nonsense. Our old church in Rockford Illinois has numerous families with eight and more children (12 is generally the upper limit). These women, in middle-age and late-middle age are generally more youthful and certainly more slender than their low-fecundity counterparts.


18 posted on 12/23/2017 6:42:52 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: simpson96

I must be 90 by now then with 4 kids.


19 posted on 12/23/2017 6:42:57 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Every woman should have 3 children. Just find a way to help make it stable without the government. A tall order.


20 posted on 12/23/2017 6:43:41 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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