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Dietary Restrictions Keep Mormons Healthy
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA -- A professor at UCLA credits LDS prohibitions on
tobacco, tea, coffee and drugs for keeping Church members healthier than
others in an article that reviews the health benefits of the teachings of
several religions. James E. Enstrom, research professor in the school of
public health at the University of California, Los Angeles, studies the low
rates of cancer and long lives of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. Enstrom, who is not a member of the LDS Church, conducted
a study of the health of 10,000 LDS Church members over 14 years of age
found that they lived an average of eight to 11 years longer than other
white Americans.
But some substances prohibited by LDS teachings get support from science. A
study in this month's Journal of the American Heart Association finds a link
between black tea, which LDS teachings forbid, and healthy arteries in
people with heart disease. And red wine also gets raves in the medical
journals every few years.
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Many faith-based dietary restrictions can benefit body, spirit
Orange co Register 27Jul01 US CA LA N1
By Mayrav Saar
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