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Twitter Remains Convinced That People Aged Faster In The Past, Continues Posting Photos That “Prove” This Theory
When Brandon McCarthy asked Twitter users whether they agree that people in the past aged faster, he didn't know he was opening Pandora's box. But what's done is done. Everyone immediately started posting pictures that support this theory, and they haven't stopped yet.
We're talking 24-year-old soccer players who look like they're going to break in half when they kick the ball, young moms and dads who could pass off as great-grandparents... Heck, someone even included Pablo Escobar in the collection. Continue scrolling and check out the most important evolutionary discovery of our age for yourself!
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It's true, people age at different rates. Now, the attention is on what can we do about it. A geriatric epidemiologist and Canada Research Chair in Geroscience at McMaster University, Parminder Raina is leading the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), one of the largest and most in-depth studies on health and aging ever.
Its aim is to understand the factors that influence how we age and find ways to slow down, cure or even prevent age-related diseases.
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Leslie Burleson 5 years ago
That's an old picture of Brad Pitt ... he looks pretty close to his age actually
"We now have more centenarians than ever before, and not all of them are senile and functionally dependent," Raina said. "Many live very full lives."
According to him, understanding how we age, why we each age differently, and what causes disease and disability as we rack up the years is critical to developing programs and interventions that will promote independent and healthy living for as long as possible.
With a team of more than 160 researchers and contributors, the CLSA is following over 50,000 randomly selected men and women between the ages of 45 and 85 over a 20-year period to understand why some people live longer than others. The biggest funders of this project are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and other participating provinces.
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Meredith Glenn 5 years ago (edited)
He was 51 when the movie was released, so, yeah. Something must be in the water
"We know that the changes in our body that come with aging represent a common risk factor for disease," Raina said. "What we learn from this could tell us a lot about how chronic inflammation is linked to cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease; how responses to stress can accelerate aging and risk of disease; how work history and wealth contribute to our health and well-being; and more."
What a time to be alive! Now all we have to do is stick around until we get the results and who knows, maybe you and I will be able to add a few extra birthdays to our calendars.
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Douglas Campbell 5 years ago
It's the glasses and the hair style we associate with older people.
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Nia Loves Art 5 years ago
Drug use, stress, and eating disorders aged her. She was considered prematurely old looking even at the time.
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Peter Anka 5 years ago
Sting once said, that without Sex Pistols today every rocker would be look like just like this...
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Not to be rude, but it's a fact that your ears and nose keeps growing through your lifetime. I'd really like to see a picture of this guy in his later years.
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Patrick McKemie 5 years ago
Yeah, active every five games. Major League pitchers aren't really thought of as the peak of athleticism. Dude was 64 years old in this picture.
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Theresa Tzitzira 5 years ago
Looking just like my father, both in the face features and in the period of time this was taken (I presume in the sixties..)
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Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch 5 years ago
Stephen Miller is 37 in Vampire years. He's 953 in human years.
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Sara Messina 5 years ago
I think we just associate certain styles with being old because our parents/grandparents wore them and we think of them as adult even in old pics. Also a lot of these people were aged by smoking, drinking or drug problems. Being grey or bald early is going to automatically make people think you're older too.
Brivid 5 years ago
Exactly. Plus a lot of people, women especially, use sunscreen and much better moisturizers than they had access to back then. And even though Judy Garland was a movie star, she had lived a crappy life with substance abuse and she was on her 4th husband by the time she was 45.
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Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch 5 years ago
less smoking and drinking. We're outside less so not as much sun. More plastic surgery, hair restoration, botox, etc.
WillemPenn 5 years ago
Smoking perhaps, but drinking trends have remained pretty consistent. wboizgown0...r7ibja.png 
LaDec 5 years ago
It has to be that all the preservatives in our food now a days keeps us younger? Lol
Iggy 5 years ago
You may not be that far off the truth. Apparently, corpses now take longer to decompose than they used to and that is given as the reason.
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Sara Messina 5 years ago
I think we just associate certain styles with being old because our parents/grandparents wore them and we think of them as adult even in old pics. Also a lot of these people were aged by smoking, drinking or drug problems. Being grey or bald early is going to automatically make people think you're older too.
Brivid 5 years ago
Exactly. Plus a lot of people, women especially, use sunscreen and much better moisturizers than they had access to back then. And even though Judy Garland was a movie star, she had lived a crappy life with substance abuse and she was on her 4th husband by the time she was 45.
Load More Replies... Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch 5 years ago
less smoking and drinking. We're outside less so not as much sun. More plastic surgery, hair restoration, botox, etc.
WillemPenn 5 years ago
Smoking perhaps, but drinking trends have remained pretty consistent. wboizgown0...r7ibja.png
LaDec 5 years ago
It has to be that all the preservatives in our food now a days keeps us younger? Lol
Iggy 5 years ago
You may not be that far off the truth. Apparently, corpses now take longer to decompose than they used to and that is given as the reason.
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