British pathologists have challenged the palmist's belief that your hand can reveal the secret of how long you will live.
Examining 100 bodies in a hospital mortuary in western England, they compared the length of lifelines on their palms with the ages of the deceased, the Daily Mail newspaper said Saturday."It didn't matter which hand was examined, the lifeline appeared to have no bearing on how long the patient lived," pathologist John Bradfield was quoted as saying.
A lifeline, according to palmists, is the curved wrinkle stretching toward the wrist from between the thumb and index finger, its length showing how long the individual will live.