JMG Headline Of The Day
Via Business Insider:
People who espouse anti-gay views die
younger than those who don't, found a sure-to-be-controversial study in
the February issue of the American Journal of Public Health. "Anti-gay
prejudice is associated with elevated mortality risk among
heterosexuals, over and above multiple established risk factors for
mortality," wrote the researchers, led by Mark L. Hatzenbuehler of
Columbia University. In fact, those who were not highly prejudiced
against gay people lived an average of 2.5 years longer than those who
were. The researchers acknowledged that the questions represent "a
limited range of potential indices of anti-gay prejudice," adding that
the effect of such prejudice may actually be larger than they were able
to measure. The respondents included in the study were 20,226
heterosexuals who participated in GSS interviews between 1988 and 2008,
4,216 of whom had died by the end of the study period.
Want to live longer? Embrace the gay!
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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