I can attest to what Alison says about smoking accelerating aging of our skin.
I am lucky enough to be part of a group of seven women who have known one another now for about 25 years. We all met when we were in our twenties, and now we're all in our early 50s. We've stayed close over the years and have a girls-only retreat once a year where we spend four days together catching up, laughing, eating wonderful food, drinking wine and shopping. It's an absurdly wonderful group of women that I constantly feel blessed to be part of.
Over the years, we've experienced a lot together. Some parents have died, some babies were born (and now are almost grown up, OMG!) People lost jobs, changed careers, found new jobs. We grew and changed, and all along the way stayed together.
Now, that we've known each other this long, it's easy to see whose skin is aging well and whose isn't. Allowing a little for genetics, I will say that of the seven of us, the two who smoked have the oldest-looking skin. The two of us who considered ourselves sun-goddesses before all the dangers of tanning were known have the next oldest-looking skin. And the one of us who never smoked, doesn't drink and never tanned has skin that -- I swear to the heavens above -- looks like it did when she was 30. She has laugh lines, of course, but the skin itself is smooth and clear and so very very pretty.
I don't know about the above diet, and I can say that while I like salmon and blueberries, I think 28 days of them would probably insure that I never wanted to eat them again!!!
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I can attest to what Alison says about smoking accelerating aging of our skin.
I am lucky enough to be part of a group of seven women who have known one another now for about 25 years. We all met when we were in our twenties, and now we're all in our early 50s. We've stayed close over the years and have a girls-only retreat once a year where we spend four days together catching up, laughing, eating wonderful food, drinking wine and shopping. It's an absurdly wonderful group of women that I constantly feel blessed to be part of.
Over the years, we've experienced a lot together. Some parents have died, some babies were born (and now are almost grown up, OMG!) People lost jobs, changed careers, found new jobs. We grew and changed, and all along the way stayed together.
Now, that we've known each other this long, it's easy to see whose skin is aging well and whose isn't. Allowing a little for genetics, I will say that of the seven of us, the two who smoked have the oldest-looking skin. The two of us who considered ourselves sun-goddesses before all the dangers of tanning were known have the next oldest-looking skin. And the one of us who never smoked, doesn't drink and never tanned has skin that -- I swear to the heavens above -- looks like it did when she was 30. She has laugh lines, of course, but the skin itself is smooth and clear and so very very pretty.
I don't know about the above diet, and I can say that while I like salmon and blueberries, I think 28 days of them would probably insure that I never wanted to eat them again!!!
November 19, 2008 - 8:02amThis Comment
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