Losing weight can leave you looking older as fat loss accelerates the ageing process by deflating the cheeks and hollowing the eyes, a new study revealed.
It is a phenomenon known as Diet Face and was previously thought to be due to gravity taking its toll on the body in later years, causing the skin to sag.
Researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin studied the CT head scans of 19 middle-aged volunteers taken on two occasions at least a decade apart.
They found that rather than gravity sagging the skin, weight loss caused the ageing process to accelerate, deflating cheeks and making the jowls look heavy.