Meditation can half risk of heart attack

Subject: Meditation can half risk of heart attack Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:16 am

Quote :: Transcendental Meditation, made popular by the Beatles during the flower power era of the 1960s, could cut heart attack rates by half, researchers claim.
The mantra meditation, which involves repeating a sound repeatedly twice daily for up to 20 minutes, lowers death rates from heart attack and strokes.
The relaxation technique was used by patients with heart disease during a nine year £2.25million trial at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Professor of Medicine Theodore Kotchen said: 'These findings are the strongest documented effects yet produced by a mind-body intervention on cardiovascular disease.
'The effect is as large or larger than major categories of drug treatment for cardiovascular disease.