Do Attractive People Have Longer Lives?

It is a known fact that good looking people tend to do better in life as compared to their peers. Studies have shown that they land jobs more easily and get promoted at work more quickly too. Now there's evidence they live longer, too. 

Scientists have found that people with attractive faces live longer than those whose faces don’t raise pulses very much, according to a research paper published in the scientific journal Evolution and Human Behavior.

In 2012, some scientists from University of Edinburgh carried out a test to find out whether adults who looked less attractive died before their more attractive peers. The scientists then followed the people over a seven-year period to see who died first. 

In the end, the seven-year study found that looking older rather than looking less attractive predicted an early death. The study also concluded that having an attractive face is also closely related to looking younger. This is because younger people often look healthier and more attractive. 

Researchers claim that good looks mean good genes. There is also a reason why we are attracted to good looking people. Not because we’re superficial, but because we are born to be attracted to people with good genes. This means that they have a higher chance of producing a healthy offspring. 

Stress and aging

Keeping a stressful, unhealthy lifestyle accelerates premature aging. Many studies have shown that stress are often caused by several lifestyle changes such as pregnancy, long-term unemployment, anxiety attacks, etc. Stress triggers many neural pathways that cause your cells to age more quickly. 

In 2016, the U.S. spent more than $16 billion on cosmetic procedures. To put things in perspective, it is almost the same as the GDP of Brunei in 2012. Americans are one of the top spenders of cosmetic procedures in the world. Out of 4.1 million cosmetic procedures done in 2016, 387,000 were surgical procedures, and 3.7 million were minimally-invasive ones. 

Minimally-invasive and non-invasive treatments are gaining popularity because opting not to go under the knife is usually associated with less pain, shorter downtime, and few complications. 

Younger people aged 30 to 40 usually prefer non-surgical procedures such as Ultherapy, HIFU treatment, dermal filler, Botox, and laser treatments. On the other hand, skin lifting treatments are usually more popular among older adults. These treatments include thread lift (Silhouette Soft Thread Lift), fat freeze, and eye bag treatment.

No matter how much cosmetic procedures we undergo and regardless of how young we look, it does not prolong your lifespan. What people are fighting against is not death itself but being judged by others. 

In a cruel world that judges attractiveness by how young we look, older adults are generally facing intense pressure to resort to medical aesthetic treatments to maintain their youthful appearance. 

This article is brought to you by Radium Medical Aesthetics. Radium Medical Aesthetics is a medical aesthetic clinic in Singapore that offers a wide range of non-surgical, minimally-invasive anti-aging treatments.