dailynewsnblog
Who doesn’t like art? If you find yourself answering “me” to that question then perhaps you should check out different galleries. Recent research has shown that people who regularly engage with art and feel something about it tend to age slower. Even engaging with art all east once a month show a 3% decrease in aging speed. Neat!
Stay young, enjoy art, live life.
“These results demonstrate the health impact of the arts at a biological level,” said Daisy Fancourt, the study’s lead author and the head of University College London’s social biobehavioral research group, told The Guardian. “They provide evidence for arts and cultural engagement to be recognized as a health-promoting behavior in a similar way to exercise.”
The study was conducted among 3,356 adults between 2010 and 2012, and included survey data and blood tests. Individuals’ rate of aging was assessed according to epigenetic clocks, which are analytic methods that track age-related changes to DNA and can be used to estimate biological age, which may differ from a person’s chronological age.
Read more.
Thanks to Fono!
