Churchgoers Live Longer

[Dondi]

Churchgoers Live Longer

By Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience Managing Editor
posted: 03 April 2006 11:29 am ET

There are many things you can do to increase your life expectancy: exercise, eat well, take your medication and ... go to church.
A new study finds people who attend religious services weekly live longer. Specifically, the research looked at how many years are added to life expectancy based on:

Regular physical exercise: 3.0-to-5.1 years
Proven therapeutic regimens: 2.1-to-3.7 years
Regular religious attendance: 1.8-to-3.1 years

Story here.

 

[smoothmarine187]

What about churchgoers that go to church only because they are forced to by their wives?

 

[Xaquin44]

haha

Hey, if you go to church and do some jumping jacks on the way to communion you will live an average of 4.8 - 8.2 years longer!

 

[Dondi]

What about churchgoers that go to church only because they are forced to by their wives?

They will live longer BECAUSE they are forced by their wives. Consider the alternative.

 

[b23hqb]

Facts? What Facts? Coming from you, THE_GOVERNOR, should be interesting getting your Straight Facts.

 

[Vince]

God will take you when he's ready. No sooner or later.