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I LOOK LIKE LARRY KING... AND THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING
Les!
I am a stressed 36 year old WOMAN and last week a friend told me that I look like LARRY KING (it was his special way of saying that I looked old and tired). After he said this, I ran to the mirror and I SAW THE RESEMBLENCE!! Okay, I’m no Tyra Banks to begin with, and I use a lot of product, but LARRY STILL SEEPED THROUGH! This horrifying vision has motivated me to try to be less stressed out and I thought that sharing it may motivate others to do the same.
“Old Man”
“Old Man”,
Yikes, I see why your suspenders came unhooked over this! Nothing against Larry or his 40-something wife, but I think it’s safe to say that most young women don’t want to look like any septuagenarian men. Although no scientific link has yet been established, it seems so obvious that lots of stress makes us look older. Just enter those shocking Presidential before and after pictures as convincing evidence—you know, the one’s where Jimmy Carter, George Bush, Sr. and others appear to have aged decades after only four years in the White House.
However, there is eyewitness news that nonstop stress and thinking of our circumstances as stressful, does make our cells older and weaker which may help to explain why stress damages organs, promotes disease, and sometimes makes us look like CNN seniors. A 2004 University of California study suggests that chronic psychological strain ages and shortens the life spans of cells, which can’t be good news for all the body tissue that cells form. It’s too soon to say for sure that constant stress makes us look older, but this research indicates that it is getting under our skin and reducing the strength and life expectancy of our foundation—and I don’t mean that Clinique base you’re wearing. As a result of their work, the scientists who conducted this study also want to see if reducing stress with meditation, yoga, social support, compassion and attitude adjustments will slow cell aging, so stay tuned.
The headline here is that you’ve used your Larry visions to change the channel on your stress-producing ways. Stick with this program and you might scoop the lab rats by discovering that a calmer mind and mode keep you looking more like Katie Couric.
Les
10/07
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