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Author Unlocks Secret of Youth

Posted Oct 15, 08 5:45 PM CDT in Science & Health,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – After a year tracking the American obsession with looking younger, veteran journalist Beth Teitell reached a sobering conclusion: "Age is the new fat." But the author of the newly released book Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth kept her head and her sense of humor. Teitell, 47, tells Time: "The real trick to the fountain of youth is not working on your own appearance, but actually blinding others to your flaws."

More pointers:

  • Dress for your age: "If you go too young, you look desperate. If you go too old, you go right to Queen Mum."
  • "The bad news is that it's very difficult, if not impossible, to look younger."
  • "The good news is that it's possible and actually relatively easy and inexpensive to appear more youthful."

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Venus Williams of the USA looks in a mirror during the quarterfinal match against Dinara Safina from Russia at the Porsche Grand Prix tennis tournament in Stuttgart, Germany, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008.   (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Author Beth Teitell chronicles "what it's like to be a woman aging in a culture that demands we stay forever 21."   (Flickr)
Makeup artist Danielle Fonseca applies cosmetics backstage before the spring 2009 collection of Joanna Mastroianni is modeled during Fashion Week in New York last month.   (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Actress Kate Beckinsale applies makeup as she arrives for the Gala premier of "Nothing But The Truth" at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.   (AP Photo)
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Once you hit a certain age, it's hard to find the garment that says, 'I still care, don't count me out, but I'm not delusional.' - Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth author Beth Teitell

[My husband] considers that a medical procedure; I was making the argument that something done in a mall next to a Cinnabon can't truly be dangerous. - Author Beth Teitell on Botox

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