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Pastor Zachery Tims Found Dead In A Hotel Room

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Orlando Mega Church pastor Zachery Tims was found dead on Friday in a Times Square Hotel Room in New York.   Tims, the senior pastor of the 8,000 member New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka near Orlando Florida, was 42. The Wall Street Journal reports that drugs are suspected. The New York Daily News reported [...]

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Television Watching May Shorten Your Life

Television Watching

Researchers from University of Queensland, in Brisbane Australia suggest that avid television  watchers may have a shorter lifespan. In research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine for every hour of TV watched after age 25 ones life is shortened by 22 minutes. The reason for this link between television watching and a shorter life [...]

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Exercise 15 Minutes A Day May Reduce Mortality Rates

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A study, published in the Lancet, indicates that 15 minutes of exercise a day can help inactive people to reduce their risk of death by 14%. This is a major study of 400,000 people that compared inactive people to active people. The researchers collected data from these 400,000 people in Taiwan over eight years. In [...]

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