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Posted on 19/04/08

Shopping ourselves young

kvonhahn@globeandmail.com

Forget regular exercise. And while you're at it, forget about your regime of anti-aging creams, brain teasers and cosmetic fillers. According to social critic Benjamin R. Barber, author of Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults and Swallow Citizens Whole, it's shopping that will turn back the clock.

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