Like there wasn't enough reason to go "low carb"

Fat and ugly. On the playground they go together (or at least they did when I was a kid). Now "fat" implies "and old," at least according to a group of researchers with nothing better to do: TheStar.com - Fat speeds up signs of aging, study shows.

A team of researchers from the U.S. and Britain found that the more a person weighs, the older their cells appear on a molecular level, with obesity adding the equivalent of nearly 9 years of age to a person's body.

So does that mean that a hugely overweight teenager (a) is less likely to be carded buying cigarettes or beer, and (b) should pass the test because s/he is over age at a molecular level?

Posted by Grayson at June 14, 2005 07:21 AM