Norwegian researchers from the group of clinics Sykehuset Innlandet found that visits to the Church of the beneficial effects not only on the soul, but also on the body. In particular, they reduce elevated blood pressure . And the more often you go to church, the lower the pressure. Earlier, the same conclusion reached by American scientists, but it was declared pure coincidence, since the US attends church regularly and 40% of the population.
In Norway, the temples walk no more than 4% of the population, so that host the study proved to be more accurate. In general, under the supervision of doctors got 120 thousand people, of which the church was visited by a total of about 5000. It turned out that they have something just celebrated lowest (and very healthy) blood pressure compared to all the others.
Now, further research is needed to understand how religious beliefs affect his person overall health. And whether healing all religions of the world, or just some specific. For example, in the United States and Norway, emphasis was placed on the study of the impact of the Christian churches to visit elevated blood pressure But nothing was reported about the services in synagogues or mosques.
However, science has known about a whole set of positive factors associated with meditation, which are traditional in the religious practices of Buddhism and Hinduism. In particular, it was shown that meditation helps with stress and depression, they also relieve some chronic pain. In the past year, scientists have found that meditation helps terminally ill people to accept their fate and live the rest of your days in a more or less tolerable mental state.
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