[–] Unsung_Heroes_again 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
What about swole bros?
[–] damnbiker [S] 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Good question. I don't know, maybe there's something about intensive exercise that combats or negates the effects of aging by excess calories. There are a lot of things that happen in your body when you exercise intensively, things like hormone level changes and the like. I'm no scientician, I'm just putting out a theory here.
[–] Daimao 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
Scientician here. People who eat more because they exercise more still produce more reactive oxygen species (ROS) which are implicated in aging and naturally occur during the process of breaking down food. Antioxidants are supposedly good at counteracting these evil molecules. In addition, there are probably benefits to moderate exercise in terms of life span which could possibly cancel out the damage from increased caloric intake (no source, just speculation). That being said, people who live to be 100 are the ones you see walking every day and only eating what they need, so I think that there is a sweet spot between limiting calories and exercising that results in a longer life than being sedentary and restricting calories.
[–] Unsung_Heroes_again 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
😄 sorry playing the devils advocate.
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[–] c-fox 0 points 18 points 18 points (+18|-0) ago (edited ago)
Fatties look older for two reasons. One is that a fat face has less expression because the muscles are hidden under excess tissue. As people get older skin loses flexibility and sags, and fat on faces also sags, so both older people and fatties have less expressions.
Also we subconsciously associate fatness with older people as young people are generally leaner.