Attending Church Regularly Will Lengthen Your Life More than Diet, Exercise: Longevity Expert
Attending church services may open the door to eternal life — but it will also extend your life on Earth more than diet or exercise, according to the foremost expert on global longevity.
Don Buettner, who won three Emmy Awards for his groundbreaking 2023 documentary “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones,” revealed the deep benefits that faith in God renders to those who want to live a long and prosperous life. Although America faces an epidemic of chronic diseases, “only about 20% of how long you live is dictated by your genes,” he told “Mornings with Maria” on Friday, August 30. A healthy lifestyle incorporating diet, exercise, and stress management means the average person can live “12 more years in good health.”
But the statistics he shared proved that an active faith in God, including weekly church attendance, had potentially the biggest impact on extending earthly life.
Buettner’s documentary investigated regions in the world known for having the longest average lifespan. Researchers interviewed 263 centenarians — people who had lived to the age of 100 — and found all but five “belonged to some faith-based community.”
The healthiest elderly had a common characteristic: “having a faith. We know people who go to church — or temple, or even mosque — and show up four times per month are living four to 14 years longer than people who aren’t.” The figure may come from a study finding regular church attendance lengthened the average American’s life by seven years — and 14 years for African Americans.
https://zenit.org/2024/09/13/attending-c...he%20study.
Attending church services may open the door to eternal life — but it will also extend your life on Earth more than diet or exercise, according to the foremost expert on global longevity.
Don Buettner, who won three Emmy Awards for his groundbreaking 2023 documentary “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones,” revealed the deep benefits that faith in God renders to those who want to live a long and prosperous life. Although America faces an epidemic of chronic diseases, “only about 20% of how long you live is dictated by your genes,” he told “Mornings with Maria” on Friday, August 30. A healthy lifestyle incorporating diet, exercise, and stress management means the average person can live “12 more years in good health.”
But the statistics he shared proved that an active faith in God, including weekly church attendance, had potentially the biggest impact on extending earthly life.
Buettner’s documentary investigated regions in the world known for having the longest average lifespan. Researchers interviewed 263 centenarians — people who had lived to the age of 100 — and found all but five “belonged to some faith-based community.”
The healthiest elderly had a common characteristic: “having a faith. We know people who go to church — or temple, or even mosque — and show up four times per month are living four to 14 years longer than people who aren’t.” The figure may come from a study finding regular church attendance lengthened the average American’s life by seven years — and 14 years for African Americans.
https://zenit.org/2024/09/13/attending-c...he%20study.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
