8-Year Amish Study: Cleaner Living = Healthier Lives

When Ohio State University cancer researchers first began studying a large sect of Amish living in Ohio, they theorized they would find higher incidence rates of cancer. Thats because Amish religious beliefs and traditions limit contact with mainstream society, and intermarriage within this relatively small population could increase the incidence of cancer-related gene mutations.
Instead, they found just the opposite, said Dr. Judith Westman, division director of Human Genetics at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC-James).
The study of Amish suggests that clean living can lead to healthier life.

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[inxsish]

Well done Amish Community!!! Thanks to the preservation of your long held beliefs in a simple, hardworking lifestyle, you get to outlive the rest of western society. I had to laugh when I heard the doctor say "you may have some gene protecting you from cancer". Yes!! You have a common sense gene that says you don't want to be part of the world that IS cancer.