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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:06 PM Jul 2014

What Seventh-Day Adventists Get Right That Lengthens Their Life Expectancy

Ryan Buxton

Statistics have shown that religion makes people happier, but it turns out it can help you live longer, too.

In an attempt to "reverse engineer longevity," Dan Buettner has spent years researching the parts of the world where people live much longer than average. Most of those locations are outside the United States -- including Sardinia, Italy, and Okinawa, Japan -- but there is one long-living group stateside. It's the Seventh-day Adventists, who live an average of 10 years longer than the American life expectancy of about 79 years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/31/seventh-day-adventists-life-expectancy_n_5638098.html?utm_hp_ref=religion