Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Premature oldies prove it’s possible to turn back time
There was potential good news for Cher over on BBC1 last night.
According to How To Stay Young it is indeed possible to turn back time.
Well, sort of. Judging by the volunteers in this first episode, time must first have been added to their bodies by the ravages of life – but, hey, it’s a start.
Apparently we all have two ages – our birth age and our body age.
Obviously, that means certain celebrities will have three ages – once they’ve included their “Age I think I Can Get Away With Without People Laughing Their Heads Off” age. No celebrities were brave enough to appear on this show, unfortunately.
Instead some courageous civilians undertook all manner of physical and psychological tests to establish their body age.
They then stood in front of a digital display and watched as the numbers rose. A neat TV gimmick – as long as you weren’t the victim. I felt particularly sorry for 54-year-old Harminder whose chronic anxiety was surely not helped by discovering she had a body age of 74.
Luckily, help was at hand in the form of nutritionists, personal trainers, sleep experts and mindfulness therapists. After 12 weeks, all the volunteers had brought their body age back down closer to their birth age. The results were not to be sniffed at. I’d be more impressed if the science team was somehow able to bring body ages BELOW birth ages though. If that happened Celebrity How To Stay Young would run for years.