ATTEND CHURCH SERVICE REGULARLY AND EXTEND YOUR YEARS ON EARTH BY 7 YEARS! – Scientists say

ATTEND CHURCH

SERVICE REGULARLY

AND EXTEND YOUR

YEARS ON EARTH

BY 7 YEARS!

 – Scientists say

Scientists have found that those who attend church services have reduced cases of high blood pressure. In a study carried in the United States and Norway, there is scientific evidence that attending church services lowers blood pressure of participants.

The Norwegian research by scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) had 120,000 participants, 4% of which were Church goers. The Church goers are found to have significant reduction in their blood pressure. Also in the U.S., previous studies in about 40% of Americans that attend church services showed a striking link between church attendance and reduced blood pressure. 

The more often you go church the lower it the blood pressure becomes.

Torgeir Sorensen, from the School of Theology and Religious Psychology Centre at Sykehuset Innlandet said: ‘We found that the more often the participants went to church the lower their blood pressure.

Dr, Harold G. Koenig, one of the authors of the Norwegian research told The Christian Post that this study is only collaborating other researches that show this trend. “About two-thirds of the research, now over 60 quantitative studies, report that those who are more religiously active have significant lower blood pressure,” said Koienig.

The researches linked the trend to what Christians do during the Church service. Like Koieng said, “If going to church leads you to deeper relationship with God, as a result a deeper sense of peace and a more loving relationship with your neighbour, then it could indeed affect blood pressure.”

Professor Jostein Holman, a member of the Norwegian research team and a professor of Medicine said the founding was so encouraging that he called for studies to be done on this. According to Holman, “The fact that churchgoers have lower blood pressure encourages us to continue to study this issue. We’re just in the start-up phase of an exciting research area in Norway.”

On  the same subject, researchers at Duke University in North Carolina, the U.S. found that regular churchgoers who also prayed daily or study the bible daily were 40% less likely to have high blood pressure than those who did not attend. The result came after a six year study on 2,391 persons. In the words of David Larson, a member of the team from US National Institute for Healthcare research, “It shows church attendance is better for your health. If they relied on TV or radio it isn’t beneficial.”

Similar studies gave further benefits of regular church attendance. Michael McCullough of the National Institute for Healthcare Research and his team said you are 29% more likely to live longer if you are a regular churchgoer. This is the result of their studies carried on about 126,000 people on effect of lifespan on regular church attendance. In a separate study in the University of Texas, scientists found that life expectancy rose when the number of Church attendance increases. Their finding is more intriguing:

·        Those who attend service once every week had life expectancy of 82 years

·        Those who attend service less than once a week had life expectancy of 79 years

·        While none-attendees had life expectancy drop to of 75 years

Beside health benefits, church attendance have also been proven by Scientist as helping youths and teenagers get into less trouble. Teens who attend church services at least once a week get less legal and other trouble than other adolescence. This is the finding of researchers from the National Study of Youth and Religion by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.