Most active people live longer than inactive people.
Heck, Mark Twain lived a long life as a smoker and Voltaire lived a long life to. Both religious skeptics.
Vonnegut's living to be quite old too, just entering his 80's I believe.
Of course, studies of religion and health can't possibly correlate all the variables of religions and regional diets and lifestyles (sedentary or active) round the U.S. Like for instance the typical Southern Baptist church picnic or Sunday brunch diet, with all it's fried chicken, which gave William Jennings Bryan a heartattack soon after the Scopes Trial.
If you want "correlation studies," there's one about Parkinson's and coffee that suggests folks who drink five to six cups of coffee a day are at far lesser risk of developing Parkinson's than those who don't drink coffee. Though it's not exactly healthy to drink that MUCH DAMN coffee, and it's not likely that ingesting religion on a regular weekly basis really adds to a person's depth of intellect, regardless of the longevity of their lives. And neither has it been proven that religion is GOOD FOR THE HEALTH AND LONG LIFE of any society. It didn't do much for the Roman Empire but increase the level of supersitiousness and seeing the devil everywhere, and persecuting heretics.
Nuff said,
Edward T. Babinski
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