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Drinking lots of water is one of the easiest ways to look (and feel) your best. Water is needed for almost every body process, including perspiration and the removal of waste products. Water also keeps the skin moist, plump and supple. Fine lines and wrinkles appear more pronounced when you are dehydrated, so make sure you meet your daily quota—that's about eight cups a day (or equivalent). Drink Less: Alcohol Ages You Alcohol may have some health benefits according to recent research, but it could be detrimental to your appearance. Drinking alcohol causes dehydration and depletes your body of valuable vitamins and minerals. When you drink alcohol, your liver has to work extra hard to eliminate the toxins from your body, but when you cut down or eliminate alcohol, your body can flush out impurities more efficiently—resulting in clearer skin and a rosier complexion. Don't Smoke: Tobacco Tarnishes Your Skin Ever heard of smoker’s face? This term, added to the medical dictionary in 1985, describes the telltale characteristics that make smokers look older than they really are: grey skin, gauntness, and wrinkles around the mouth and eyes, and deep lines in the cheeks. If all the other health problems related to smoking haven’t made you quit yet, maybe vanity will. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 toxins, many of which are absorbed directly into the skin. Smoking causes the blood vessels in the top layers of the skin to constrict, reducing the amount of oxygen in the blood and causing a sickly pallor. Smoking causes the skin to thin due to poor circulation, making lines and wrinkles more noticeable. Smoking also reduces the production of collagen, which is needed to keep the skin plump and firm. One study of 25 sets of identical twins (one a lifelong smoker, the other a non-smoker) by British researchers at St. Thomas’s Hospital found that the skin of the smoker was 25 percent thinner than the non-smoker’s. In a few cases the skin was up to 40 percent thinner. Your appearance is just one of the many reasons why you shouldn't smoke, so take steps to quit today. Aging is inevitable, but looking older doesn’t have to be. While a certain amount of how your skin ages is due to genetic factors beyond your control, just knowing I can help keep Father Time at bay with a healthy lifestyle makes me feel better about the future. Bring on the 40s—I'm ready to put my best face forward! Are you? |



Leanne Beattie
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xnlife to to extend life look me up online:) - 5/6/2013 11:04:34 PM
othing at all ...just a myth
Just sayin....
Some of these notions need to be updated before publishing here - 6/21/2012 8:43:20 PM
It's not good to cook our skin in the sun, eat junk, drink alcohol, smoke, and be dehydrated?
Not ground breaking news. - 6/20/2012 12:05:25 PM
Look at all those adverts that use before and after photos closely and you'll see that the before model isn't and the after model is.
I'm 56, my sister is 52 and my sister in law is 60. They use every expensive moisturiser under the sun, and guess what, SIL scowls all the time and has hardly anything to do all day - she looks older than she is. Sis and me smile most of the time and are always busy and engaged - everyone thinks we're younger than our years. - 6/20/2012 2:25:56 AM
Leeann, darling, at some point, one misses the boat. Please, never imply the impossible. People beyond 40 just may click on the piece. - 6/19/2012 11:31:32 PM
look younger and prevent the loss of collagen, fatty tissue from the cheeks traveling downward to create deep smile lines and jowls, droopy eyelids has to do with:
1. Facelifts.
2.Botox
3. Laser treatements.
A. Thermage which tightens the skin and helps with collagen production which is the layer that supports the outer skin.
4. Fine lines and deeper wrinkles can be treated with fillers which last from 6 months to a year.
There are many other options which a plastic surgeon or dermatologist can provide.
Although I agree with most of the information in this article they won't cure the signs of aging that I have descibed. Living a healthy lifestyle will enhance the procedures descibed but not eliminate the underlying reasons for facial aging.
I don't think that any studies have been dne to support the claims in the article.
Elizabeth - 6/19/2012 10:37:11 AM
kinde of proud of that. - 11/17/2011 9:36:12 PM
I do have wrinkles, but I regard them as part of aging. I would never, never, never have botox or plastic surgery. I'm not that vain or narcissistic. I know women who've had botox treatments and/or facelifts, and while their faces look younger, the rest of them, from the neck down, looks old. Their necks are crepey, their arms & hands are wrinkly and have age spots, their legs aren't toned and sag a little. You are only fooling yourself if you think that a facelift or botox is going to make you look that much better.
And, botox, collagen injections and facelifts can go wrong. Just think about celebrities like Joan Rivers, who looks awful, Lissa Rinna with her lumpy lips, and countless other celebrities who have that "deer in the headlights" look (constantly surprised), or can no longer smile or make any kind of facial expressions. The only people who think they look better/younger are themselves.
Personally, I admire women who accept their age and are able to age gracefully without resorting to artificial ways of looking younger. I'd rather see Susan Sarandon or Judi Dench than the likes of Pamela Anderson, Janice Dickenson, Priscilla Presley, and others like them. - 6/9/2011 3:19:19 PM