More Good News: "Going to church is good for your health!"

We've covered this before but more evidence that going to church has medicinal benefits!

Going to church at Christmas may have been good for the soul, but scientists have discovered that it may also be good for the body.  Researchers found that attending services lowers blood pressure – and the more often you go the lower it becomes. Previous studies in the U.S. suggested the link, but as 40 per cent of Americans regularly go to church its health benefits were treated as a coincidence. So the Norwegian researchers, who had just four per cent of churchgoers among their 120,000 participants, were surprised to see they too had lower blood pressure. ‘Previous research from the United States has shown that there is a possible link between people who attend church and blood pressure.  ‘About 40 per cent of the U.S. population goes to church on a weekly basis, while the corresponding figure in Nord-Trondelag County, where the research was carried out, is 4 per cent.  'For that reason, we did not expect to find any correlation between going to church and blood pressure in Nord-Trondelag.  'Our findings, however, are almost identical to those previously reported from the United States, so we were really surprised.’  The early results mean that it will now be studied further to determine the extent that religious beliefs can affect general health, and if other religions have the same effect.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078519/Going-church-good-Services-lower-blood-pressure-research-finds.html#ixzz1hbgFIx9a