Can your religious beliefs influence your weight? An article in the Savannah Morning News posits that they can.

The story quotes a study published in the June issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion that found Baptists were most likely to be obese, followed by Pentecostals, Catholics, Methodists and members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Denominations that stress physical health, such as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Seventh-Day Adventists, showed lower levels of obesity.

The study also found a low percentage of obese Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists in the United States.

Check out the complete story and see what you think.

-- Amanda Barrett, amNY.com