Study says good-looking people live longer

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Research has long shown that good-looking people tend to get the biggest breaks in life. Teachers favor them in school. So do juries in the courtroom.
Now a Canadian study indicates they get a break in death, Allure magazine reports. Twenty men and women rated high-school year book graduation photos of 50 people born in the 1920s, assessing their looks and apparent health.
When psychology researchers at the University of Waterloo recently compared the ratings with death records, they found those with the best scores in looks had lived the longest. Twelve of the men considered attractive lived an average of 76 years. Those on the lowest rung averaged 69.
The women with the high scores lived to an average 76 versus 73 for those at the bottom of the rung.
Psychologists say it fits the evolutionary theory that attractiveness in the reproductive years is associated with health and healthy genes, Allure notes.