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I’ve often heard it mentioned that the church of Latter Day Saints is a religious culture that abstain from alcohol and caffeine, and their life expectancy is m
by jb1991 5y ago
I’ve often heard it mentioned that the church of Latter Day Saints is a religious culture that abstain from alcohol and caffeine, and their life expectancy is many years longer than average, by a decade or so, even when they live amongst others in the same country and otherwise have similar environmental influences.
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- enkid 5y agoDo you have any actual evidence of this?
- jb1991 5y agoA quick Google finds lots of articles about it but I have nothing to add myself. I.e. https://www.deseret.com/2010/4/13/20375744/ucla-study-proves-mormons-live-longer https://www.deseret.com/2010/4/13/20375744/ucla-study-proves...
- paulcole 5y agoThey eat sugar like fiends to make up for it.
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- jb1991 5y agoCorrection, it was the Seventh-day Adventist Church I was thinking of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church#Health_and_diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church#H...
- paulcole 5y agoThere’s handful of places in the world that were believed to an have an unusually high number of extremely old people and it’s like Loma Linda, California, Okinawa , Japan, Sardinia, Italy, Nicoya, Costa Rica, and Icaria, Greece. Turned out that Loma Linda (because of the Adventists) was the only legit one and the others were just a result of bad record keeping/fraud (people pretending dead relatives were alive to collect pensions). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone