Under stress the PENI system can break down and may lead to heart disease, infection and may even affect the outcome in cancer. Coping skills keep you balanced and involve a good knowledge of the world and how it works, inner resources, spirituality, having control over events in your life and a good social support system. These factors should, he suggests, be considered alongside more traditional risk factors when promoting positive health and good quality of life.

When you look at the population of the U.S., the latest Gallup polls, belief in God, membership importance, and attendance, this is done by age; you can see the different categories. When you look at belief in God, it's straight across: about 95 percent of the population.