>>>
>>> According to this tv documentary about living longer, apart from the
>>> usual stuff.. eating your veges, not smoking/drinking, exercising,
>>> etc.,.. having religious faith can add years to your life; seven is
>>> claimed.
>>>
>>>
http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/video/watch/551eeaf9-522c-3bf5-a74c-435410dd66a7/how-to-live-longer/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> it concludes.. 'It's never too late to have the best drug on the planet,
>>> which is a thing called happiness, peace, and contentment"
>>
>> Of course, those have little to do with religion per se.
>
> It was not a religious documentary. It was a current affairs program.
> However, if religious faith produces that result, then they do have to
> do with religion.
>
>>
>> Japan and France, for example, are secular countries where a lot of
>> people still smoke, drink and eat a variety of good food, and have a
>> longer life expectancy than mostly religious USA. Go figure!
>>
>>
>
> Yes, but look at the typical American diet. The program was about the so
> called 'blue zones'- places where people live longer on average.