Posted on 11/28/2004 9:25:13 AM PST by GOPologist
ATLANTA--Good-looking people get all the breaks--including the ultimate one. Now there's evidence they live longer, too.
Researchers have found that--get this--people with the most attractive faces live longer than those whose mugs don't raise pulses very much, according to a study published recently in the journal, EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
One of the researchers, Joshua Henderson of the University of Waterloo in Canada, says their findings go along with the sexual selection theory of evolution, which holds that, when given a choice, people pick mates with biological cues of good genes.
Henderson and Professor Jerry Anglin took 50 yearbook photos from the 1920s of 17-year-olds and had 20 modern-day students "rate" them for good looks and health. Then the researchers looked at the death records of those same folks. Men who'd been rated as attractive lived an average of 76 years. But those that weren't averaged only 69.
The most attractive women lived to an average age of 76, three more than those who weren't rated as all that hot.
The only logical conclusion? "Facial attractiveness in adolescence is predictive of future longevity."
Well, there's another conceivable reason," Henderson says. "It is widely known that attractive people have better jobs, make more money, etc."
"Given that they generally have a higher socio-economic status, it is possible that they have better access to health care and thus, are more likely to live longer," he says.
I'm doomed.
I should learn how to spell, "GOOD."
Sorry for you.
Gooode
Guess I will ive to be 200.
You and me both.
She be daid for years. Someone really should tell her, ya know??
not if they're in a teachers' union, they don't.
I read just today in our paper that Hollywood stars always wear dark glasses so the public doesn't see what they really look like--pitiful.
Ah-ha! Another truth teller! We may be short lived, but at least we'll die with a clean conscience.
Well, I'm going to live forever. I'm so hot I burn footprints in wood floors. Flowers bloom when I walk into the room. People throw their coats over mud puddles for me. Birds land on my shoulders and sing.
I have, however, been told that I lack modesty and have a tendency to exaggerate. But I think they're just jealous.
What if you were attractive when you were young, but you're ugly now?!
In the case of Julia Roberts, putting makeup on her is somewhat akin to lipstick on a pig. Ugghh...
ROTFLMAO! Me too! *~*
Well, I live in Hollywood and so far I've only seen four celebrities, but they all look just exactly like their pictures, so I don't know if I'd believe that.
Must be true then........HELL-en will probably live to be 150........
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