Religion is healthy. Or, at least, that’s what a number of studies have suggested: Church attendance and other religious practices are associated with lower rates of mortality, along with other healthy behaviors like not smoking or drinking.
A new paper, published this week in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, takes these findings one step further: Over 17 years, researchers followed HIV-positive men and women who were already in the mid-stage of their disease by the time the study began. They found that people who engaged in spiritual practices and thinking had a greater rate of survival than people who did not—two to four times greater, in fact.
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