Baby Boomers - Looking Pretty As We Age

As we baby boomers march towards retirement, Botox, wrinkle fillers, and hormones have become big business. It's a common sentiment in a society where many of us strive to look and feel younger - to prove to ourselves and the world that we are healthier and more vital that our parents were at our age. We've all heard about that 60 is the new 50, and 50 is the new 40, and so on. Often we some help...sometimes we need a lot of help.

There is, of course, much to be said for taking care of yourself. Eating healthy, exercising your body and mind regularly are tried and true tactics for staying young. So is keeping out of the sun's harmful rays. Even flossing your teeth each day is a habit, as research would suggest on people who live to 100, might just extend your life.

There's a concern in mainstream medicine that the help we are focusing on is short-term, bizarre methods that have potentially dangerous side effects as our obsession with youth increases. Fetal cell injections, inhaling radon gas, and cutting off portions of their reproductive organs have recently become newsworthy in the press and on TV.

Jay Olshansky, a public health professor and longevity researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago, had this to say. "There's a large industry of people trying to sell to people what doesn't yet exist - much to the dismay of those of us who are vigilant about protecting our public health."

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