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People around you may not appreciate your Healthy Living habits now but wait until it pays off! As we get older, we become hypersensitive to our aging process…questioning our lifestyle, our environment and even our gene pool. Which of these factors are really aging us, or if we are healthy, keeping us young? Today, my doubts were extinguished.

Have two persons at the same age, maybe even same genes stand side by side. The other eat healthy, does not smoke, drink alcohol, party all night and the other completely the opposite. Who would you think will look younger?

A team of doctors from the Department of Plastic Surgery at Case Western Reserve University studied the effects of lifestyle and environment on the facial aging process of 186 sets of twins. The study is called Factors Contributing to the Facial Aging of Identical Twins. Although the study looked at multiple factors in lifestyle and environment, smoking and sun exposure were extremely significant to the aging process. Specifically, here are the results:

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