Does good health and youthful looks result from an easy lifestyle?

Question

Last night my fiancee' was amazed at how young some of the people who she met looked for their age. They all seemed to have one thing in common: They never really overextened themselves, and had incredibly stress free lifestyles. The majority held no job or a marginal one, and still lived at home. The difference between them and "upwardly mobile" people of about the same age was too dramatic to just be co-incidence. Assuming all of your basic needs (i.e. food, shelter, healthcare) are covered, does a lifetime of low stress, menial jobs, no children ensure youth and good health?

Answer 1

Only if you swim in the deep waters of the pond.

Answer 2

Well I take it you don't know these people well enough to know their whole life story. Your only assuming you know their life style by what you see in what I assume was a public setting?
If someone doesn't have a job they will obviously have more time to make themself beautiful. Have more time to work out and shop for clothes. However that doesn't mean it's an easy life. There could be reasons they don't work or why they live at home. That doesn't mean they have stress free lives.
I've seen very hard working woman who were beautiful and I've seen lazy people who were not attractive at all.
Do these woman come from money? Because money buys looks and maybe that is the case of it?

Answer 3

I think it might as it seems that people who have an easy life age better. I have met alot of elderly people that live at a retirement apartment and they are in their 70's-90's and most are able to get around fairly good and most of the women are still fairly attractive and independent as are most of the men who live there although the men seem to have more health problems. However these people were all sucessful in life and had good jobs and lived well most of their lives and were able to take care of themselves and their health. On the otherside, I see women in their 30's and 40's that are hagardly looking and deeply wrinkled because they have had a hard life, poverty, children, had bad habits like smoking and partying, etc.

Answer 4

The ones that take care of themselves, get plenty of excersise and eat the right foods might fall into that category but just as often they over eat all the wrong foods and end up overweight and have low resistance to illness.I have seen it go both ways. Usually the ones that have it easy when they are young end up all stressed out with their lives when they got older.

Answer 5

i think so. All US presidents look like they've aged 25 years in only 8 years, when you look at before and after pictures.

Also, i think that when people go through a stressful tragedy, where they are crying or grieving for a month, seem to age by a large number of years.

Stessful jobs certainly can put lines on your face, especially scowl lines !!

Answer 6

I don't think so. I'm almost 30 but barely look 20 to some people and I have had alot of stress in my lifetime. I think it's all about your genes. Some people age well and others don't.

Answer 7

I'm almost 22, and have been a single mum since I was 19. I still look 16/17. So i doubt having a child ages you.

Answer 8

It definately helps.

Just think of the cheerleader that lands the new doctor in town. Or a nearly 6 foot tall former chicken fryer from Mexia Texas that lands a billionaire hubby in his 80s.

Answer 9

Stress-free lives are probably a big part of it... No tanning so you don't look like darkened leather when you hit 30... Clean air... Lots of things can contibute to looking young. Especially genes!!!

Answer 10

Sometimes and sometimes not.