Medical schools are now beginning to teach doctors-in-training to take a spiritual history along with the patient's medical history.
An analysis of 42 studies involving 125,286 patients, published in the June 2000 issue of Health Psychology, found that those with some sort of religious involvement live longer.
The article "Church a way of life in Dixie," cites a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study that found that regular attendees to church have lower rates of divorce and welfare dependency; it also could have cited a raft of studies pointing to health benefits.
In a study comparing the associations between faith and health, a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center physician has shown the improvements in life expectancy of those who attend religious services on a weekly basis to be comparable to those who participate in regular physical exercise!
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