I think it’s too soon to have a credible report.Laudetur Jesus Christus!
Are there any scientific studies on the health of those catholic monks who never use internet or come in contact mith mass media? if those people are more healthy or what happens to them?
I don’t know of any studies about Catholic monks. There is an ongoing study involving nuns, and Alzheimer’s disease, started in 1986. They’ve had some surprising results. A landmark study because not much research has been done on aging women.Laudetur Jesus Christus!
Are there any scientific studies on the health of those catholic monks who never use internet or come in contact mith mass media? if those people are more healthy or what happens to them?
well, it’s an interesting study but they are not nuns.Some information here It’s a Wikipedia link, if that’s an unacceptable source, please google Nun Study.
Really? School Sisters of Notre Dame aren’t nuns? henrikhank, you need to do some reading. They are nuns.well, it’s an interesting study but they are not nuns.
I think a big problem with comparing this is that monks and nuns have lives that are quite different from the Amish. Access to healthy food, modern medicine, and other non-luxury aspects of modern society are available to monks and nuns, whereas the Amish might choose to eat a diet with unhealthy contents without really questioning it due to their closed communities, and they might choose to avoid certain types of preventative medicine (including vaccines, which are generally taken by children before starting public school and prevent a lot of childhood diseases that are uncommon in the modern world).I think it’s too soon to have a credible report.
However, I learned from a ER nurse in Pennsylvania, that the Amish aren’t all that healthy.
She says their kids end up in the ER, with various illnesses that people living in modern lifestyles haven’t seen since the 1800’s.
Jim
they are not nuns but they are religious sisters.Really? School Sisters of Notre Dame aren’t nuns? henrikhank, you need to do some reading. They are nuns.
But the problem is, we don’t yet have a group of elderly people who have lived with the current level of technology to use in a study.I think a big problem with comparing this is that monks and nuns have lives that are quite different from the Amish. Access to healthy food, modern medicine, and other non-luxury aspects of modern society are available to monks and nuns, whereas the Amish might choose to eat a diet with unhealthy contents without really questioning it due to their closed communities, and they might choose to avoid certain types of preventative medicine (including vaccines, which are generally taken by children before starting public school and prevent a lot of childhood diseases that are uncommon in the modern world).
It would be interesting to see what the differences are, although I imagine that they would largely show a health benefit to life in a religious community. Unhealthy aspects of secular life would be more difficult to maintain, and psychological or physical problems would probably be obvious in a tight-knit community.
The nun study, though, doesn’t really seem to answer the same questions that the OP was asking, since it only used nuns as a sample group for reasons unrelated to their lifestyles, and since it wasn’t testing correlation between lifestyle and disease. From the Wikipedia article, I understand that it was testing for traits that could predict alzheimer’s disease, and used nuns as a population group because they all had a similar environment and similar lives.
That’s interesting. I just read that the Amish experience more genetic birth defects due to a smaller available gene pool. But then those problems would result from a very different reason than any health problems monks might have!I think it’s too soon to have a credible report.
However, I learned from a ER nurse in Pennsylvania, that the Amish aren’t all that healthy.
She says their kids end up in the ER, with various illnesses that people living in modern lifestyles haven’t seen since the 1800’s.
Jim