Forget fad diets and expensive face creams. The key to looking young is to grow old disgracefully.
Those who think and dress in a youthful way are healthier than those who act their age, according to research.
Mind over matter, it seems, can improve everything from blood pressure to arthritis and eyesight.
Even the development of heart disease and cancer may, at least to a degree, be staved off by refusing to grow old gracefully.
The intriguing claims come from researchers at Harvard University, who reviewed a series of studies into how the mind influences the body.
In one experiment, elderly men were ‘transported’ back to 1959 for a week. They lived in accommodation fitted out in the decor of the Fifties, were played TV shows and music of the time and told to talk and act as if they were living then.
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