The Amish and Mennonites are basically re-inventing monastic communities around the family unit. I wonder if these studies were to be done on Catholic monaster

The Amish and Mennonites are basically re-inventing monastic communities around the family unit. I wonder if these studies were to be done on Catholic monasteries and convents, what they would find. Because monks and cloistered nuns lead the same sort of lifestyle, free of vices such as alcohol or smoking, and do a significant amount of hard manual labor, working in the fields, chores around the house, and manufacturing. However, monks and nuns may also live in urban settings, and more often than not, they have good group health plans, and so they would have regular checkups and screenings and treatments for everything under the sun. Monks and nuns are not the sort to refuse vaccination or other preventive treatments. It would be interesting to see differentials between these types of population. You may be able to better isolate some cause-and-effect there.