If you want a long life go to church often

A new study in a journal published by the American Medical Association, says that those who attend church services more often actually have a better chance of having a long life.

Over a 20-year span, the study surveyed a group of more than 76,000 female nurses, most of whom were Catholic and Protestant.

At the end of 20 years, more than 13,000 of them had died.

The women who went to religious services more than once a week, it turned out, were 33 per cent less likely to be in that group who died, compared to those who never attended services. Continue reading

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