A Surprising Secret to a Long Life: Stay in School

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by Victoria Revay | January 3, 2007 at 09:58 am
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Researchers find that staying in school, yes that's right -- education -- is vastly underrated when it comes to studying why certain people live longer than others. 

The one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education. It is more important than race; it obliterates any effects of income.

Source: nytimes.com

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