Title: Shopping IS Good For You: How Manolos Can Save Your Life
Headings: Shopping IS Good For You: How Manolos Can Save Your Life
Shopping IS Good For You: How Manolos Can Save Your Life
Content: You help her, and she helps you. The positive effects continue to pile up, often unintentionally, even after your purchase. Thanks to your newly elevated mood, you might smile at a stranger on the bus, or offer to make dinner for your guy when you get home, passing along residual happiness. Everybody wins. And it's not only about pleasure. Shopping may also help women maintain their mental acuity in old age, says Guy McKhann, M.D., a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University and a co-author of Keep Your Brain Young. " People who are doing really well as they get older tend to be mentally engaged, physically active, and socially involved," he says. " And women are all of those things when they shop." Meanwhile, back on the couch, Grandpa scores none of the above. Coed browsing
So if shopping is so good for you, why does it make me and every other guy I know want to curl up next to the checkout counter and die?