A Surprising Secret to a Long Life: Stay in School
Scientists continue to venture into one of the prevailing mysteries of aging, the persistent differences seen in the life spans of large groups. 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 even churchgoing. But the questions for researchers are why? And what really matters? The answers have been a surprise. The one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education.