God helps! Going to church kills cancer, prevents heart diseases and prolongs life

– Going to church has a series of health benefits: it decreases depression, lower risk of cancer and heart disease etc.

– Researchers are confused with what stays behind a healing effect of religious ceremonies but believe it optimism and a sense of community that help

Ground-breaking news! Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston came to the unbelievable results after analysing data from a 16-year follow-up Nurses’ Health Study — they found out that going to church is an answer to all your questions.

Prof VanderWeele, a leading researcher, gave the details of the study: “Our results suggest that there may be something important about religious service attendance beyond solitary spirituality.

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Part of the benefit seems to be that attending religious services increases social support, discourages smoking, decreases depression, and helps people develop a more optimistic or hopeful outlook on life.”

Moreover, attending religious ceremonies may cut your chances of getting cancer or heart disease and even increase life expectancy. According to the religious service attendance and subsequent death correlation study, among 74,534 women:

– 14,158 attended church more than once a week,

– 30,401 attended once per week (had a 26% lower risk

– 12,103 attended less than once per week,

– 17,872 never attended.

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There were 13,537 deaths, including 2,721 from cardiovascular disease and 4,479 from cancer.

Interestingly, women who attended religious services more than once a week had had a 33% lower risk of death (21% lower risk of dying from cancer and a 27% lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease) than women who never attended church.

Women who attended services weekly had a 26% lower risk and those who attended services less than weekly had a 13% lower risk, according to the results.

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