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Do people with chubby faces age slower?

While anecdotal evidence has long suggested that those with fuller, rounder faces retain a youthful appearance longer, scientific and medical research offers a more nuanced explanation for the link between facial volume and aging. The perception that people with chubby faces age slower is largely connected to facial fat deposits, which decrease naturally with age, leading to a loss of volume that can make signs of aging more apparent.

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