Church-going women live longer, Harvard study shows

BOSTON – Does attending church give you a longer life? A Harvard University study shows a significant proportion of women who went to services more than once a week lived longer than those who never attended religious services. For the Nurses' Health Study, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health tracked nearly 75,000 female nurses over two decades from 1992 to 2012, looking at diet, lifestyle, and health status as well as religious service attendance.

BOSTON – Does attending church give you a longer life? A Harvard University study shows a significant proportion of women who went to services more than once a week lived longer than those who never attended religious services. For the Nurses' Health Study, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health tracked nearly 75,000 female nurses over two decades from 1992 to 2012, looking at diet, lifestyle, and health status as well as religious service attendance.…