Fifty is the new Thirty. This is true, at least when I look at pictures of celebrities that are over 49 years of age. I can hardly believe my eyes because of how youthful they look because as far as I can remember this hasn't always been so. Through out the nineteen nineties, nineteen eighties, nineteen seventies and even nineteen sixties being fifty years old meant that you were officially past your prime. A fifty year old had crows feet and dark circles around the eyes the frown lines were well pronounced and hair was misplaced if not completely missing. A fifty year old had at least a pot belly and if not then saggy skin but today none of this is the case.
There is a clear difference between today's fifty year old and the fifty year old of past decades. Something happened to the generations born after 1960 that has affected the way they would live and consequently the way they would look. Age is nothing but a number so goes the expression. But the results of aging that is a whole other story all together. It has long been dreamed of that aging could be slowed down or at least the effects of it. Today lifestyle conscience people are putting to practice important scientific discoveries about the secrets of staying young and these I believe have become self evident among the first generation to reach that threshold since modern science has significantly paved the way.
Do people today exercise more? I don't know! Jack Lalane, God rest his soul, had been leading that crusade for generations until the Lord finally took him. News reports seem to indicate that people are actually getting fatter no thinner. So do people eat healthier? There are plenty of celebrity chefs around but the growing waste line seems to indicate that they are no real help. So then is the reality far from the truth? Are the fabulous fifties of today a total fraud, a photoshoped ilusion, a product of Hollywood to keep the masses docile and oblivious?
The truth is that the advancements in science are not just limited to health and medicine but are also manifest in the visual arts as well, in the form of digital media and what it can and can not display. Today's digital media still can't produce a realistic three dimensional hologram of Haley Berry in a two piece bikini but it can display a fabulous two dimensional photoshoped version of her complete with flawless skin perfect hair and in there rest another potential secret to the fabulous fifties of today, that quite possibly they are not as fabulous as they are made to appear.
In fact the truth lies somewhere in between. Today the knowledge to a more youthful fifties does exist but it is no magic pill, diet or exercise routine. It is a combination of lifestyle choices that need to be put forth from early childhood in order to have the desired effects. Not everybody will heed this call and in fact some sectors are more prone to heeding the call of health than others. The vast majority of fifty year olds do actually look fifty just don't be surprised if a few of them don't !