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Health | Religious Faith Has Not Been Proven to Promote Good Healt

Richard P. Sloan, Emilia Bagiella, and Tia Powell In the following viewpoint Richard P. Sloan, Emilia Bagiella, and Tia Powell contend that research claiming a link between religion and good health is misleading. The authors allege that most studies finding a faith-health link have failed to control for important variables, such as the age, sex, and health status of the participants. Thus, they contend that attending church has no proven health benefits. Sloan is the director of the Behavioral Medicine Program at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. Bagiella is an assistant...

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