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Langar tray. (Source: PunjabiPortal)

UCLA study links obesity with Sikh religiosity

July 30, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

In 2011, an article in TIME magazine discussed a study that correlated a person’s risk of obesity with their attendance of religious services, finding that “…people who went to church or church activities at least once a week were more than twice as likely as people with no religious involvement to become obese.” While the results of the study was not specific to Sikhs or Sikh Americans, I considered the Sikh context — particularly as it relates to the Sikh […]

Categories: Reports/Studies, Sikhism • Tags: Gurdwara, Langar, obesity, University of California Los Angeles

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