Secret to Long Life: School
For decades, there have been a variety of hypotheses about what it takes to live a long life -- money, lack of stress, a loving family, lots of friends, even IQ. In every country, there is an average life span for the nation as a whole and there are average life spans for different subsets, based on race, geography, education and participation in faith-based activities. Surprisingly, year after year, the one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education. And, health economists say, those factors popularly believed to be crucial -- money and health insurance, for example, pale in comparison.
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