The universal fixation on youth is hardly a recent phenomenon. What's different with Baby Boomers is how passionately they refuse to concede anything to age. While previous generations entered middle age without much fuss, many Baby Boomers appear to be trying to create a new model of adulthood, a midlife stage focused on renewal. The wealthiest generation in history, they employ whatever they can afford to stay young from wrinkle-erasing creams to herbs to hormones, ballooning anti-aging medicine into a multibillion-dollar business. Last year, Baby Boomers poured thirty billion dollars into anti-aging products (Weiss, 2002). However, do the products they purchase really work? I'm afraid the answer is "No." At present, no inventions have been confirmed to slow, stop, or reverse aging (ScienceDaily, 2002), yet people without much knowledge about the truth of anti-aging products are exposed to all fabrication through the media. With anti-aging industries asserting the virtue of...