Study puts paid to the ‘shop ’til you drop’ adage

SO finally, a study has found that shopping is good for you — in fact it makes you live longer.

This report is full of shocks, the first being that men — who, for the main part, just don’t “get” the unadulterated joy of shopping — have put their lives at risk by their refusal to embrace shopping.

It shows that men over the age of 65 who shop regularly are 28% less likely to die than their peers who don’t shop or won’t shop. Regular women shoppers (clever gals who cottoned onto the whole thing yonks ago) are 25% less likely to die than women who aren’t into shopping.