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Curiously research in UK and USA reveals 'God' can at least make people fat:
Modern diabolical miracle:
'..Brits who believe in God are more likely to be overweight, according to the latest figures.
Research from the University of Coventry concluded that people of faith are more overweight than godless heathens, with Christians likely to be most overweight of all.
In research that for the first time examined the links between religion and health in the UK, Dr Deborah Lycett studied the Body Mass Index (BMI) of over 7,000 people and discovered that people belonging to a religious group were on average almost a point higher than atheists.
Similar studies have already been conducted in the US, where one found the more dedicatedly religious someone is, the greater their chances of being overweight. The study looked at those who rarely prayed and those who attended worship every week.
Lycett’s study found that while Christians were the portliest, Sikh men came in at a close second, with "a significantly higher waist-to-hip ratio … seen in Christian and Sikh men.”
The least likely to be overweight were Buddhists, who are known for observing a strict lifestyle without succumbing to temptation....'
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The study gathered information from 7,414 adults over the age of 16 who took part in the 2012 Health Survey for England, and found that on average those who describe themselves as religious had a BMI 0.91kg per square meter higher than non-believers.
Current NHS guidelines state that any BMI between 18.5kg and 25kg per square meter is healthy, with those over 30kg considered obese.
Obesity is a stubborn problem in the UK, and not just in religious communities...'
http://rt.com/uk/217079-religion-makes-believers-fat/
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