Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The Secret to Longevity May Be Lying About Your Age

We can look to the life of Jeanne Louise Calment—the Frenchwoman famous for surviving some 122 years until she passed away in 1997—for French-y lifestyle tips about enduring to a ripe old age: Ride a bicycle until you’re 100; marry someone who will pay your bills; eat two pounds of chocolate per week; rub olive oil onto your skin; indulge in the occasional glass of Port. But now, a new paper poses that Calment may have had another old-fashioned method for reaching an impressive age: just lie about it!

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