It may not feel like it as you load suitcases and kids into the family car for your summer holiday - briefly pondering whether you could get away with putting suitcases on the backseat and kids in the boot, and don't tell me you've never considered it - but according to scientific research, travelling keeps you young.
It doesn't make you younger a trip won't turn the clock back. You won't come home from 10 days on the Coromandel and suddenly get IDed at the supermarket for your pinot gris. But you might be "less old" than if you'd stayed put.
Researchers at an Australian university posit that travel specifically, fun holiday travel - "disrupts entropy". And my apologies for making you read the word "entropy". I would have avoided it if I could.
This story is from the December 23, 2024 edition of New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
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