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This section of NUFF is for research not included in the NUFF Resource Book and for research in progress. The more useful and important research results will be found in the NUFF Resource Book.

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Numbers
How many naturists are there and what are people attitudes towards them?
Naturist's Attitudes
A quick survey carried out in the uk.rec.naturist newsgroup, February 2000.
Skin Cancer
This is a topic that causes some concern to a lot of naturists. We have a page leading to further information.
Teenage Pregnancy
The correlation between naturism and low rates of socially undesirable things like teenage pregnancy, abortion and such like is astonishingly strong.
United States' National Commission on Mental Health
The following story has cropped up a number of times. Sadly, it is almost certainly bogus.

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE SANEST OF THEM ALL.

According to the United States' National Commission on Mental Health, the healthiest, happiest and sanest people are nudists. After six years of studying hundreds of groups and organisations and rating the mental health of their members, the Commission found that naturists came out on top.

'The nudists came out so far in front that virtually every other group studied looks like a gathering of lunatics, perverts and criminals in comparison' said Dr Edward Harper Moore, spokesman for the Commission.

A sociologist who was on the teaching staff at Harvard University before joining the Commission, Dr Moore says he was so impressed with the statistics on nudists that he and his family now practise naturism themselves.

As a group, the nudists had the lowest rate in the nation for crime, suicide, mental breakdowns, divorce and time lost from work because of illness. It was also found that their children had a much higher average intelligence, the lowest number of high-school drop-outs, the highest number of university scholarship winners and college graduates and the highest number of star athletes.

As far as I can determine, there is no United States' National Commission on Mental Health.
The United States' National Institure on Mental Health says that it is nothing to do with them.
It is rather 'over the top'.
We have heard that it is a spoof.
Accordingly we conclude that the above is fiction.

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