Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts
Perform meditation can improve student test scores
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Perform meditation can improve student test scores - A meditation technique called meditation trancendental known to increase brain power and even to increase student test scores, according to recent research.
A study conducted on high school students found that the graduation rate rose to 25 percent in trancendental students who meditate twice a day, as reported by the Daily Mail.
This meditation technique is done with a mumbled voice that repeated many times with my eyes closed. To do so, students say Omm ... at the time of meditation, closing the eyes for 20 minutes, twice a day.
Not only can boost brain power, this meditation technique is also known to reduce the risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and reduce stress and anxiety. This technique was once famous in the 60s, after a member of The Beatles traveled to India and taught do this meditation technique.
In a study that looked at 235 students in urban schools the United States showed an increase in the graduation rate to 15 percent in children who do trancendental meditation techniques regularly. Not only that, students who meditate also smaller risk of being expelled from school or go to jail.
Professor Robert Colbert from the University of Connecticut explained that improving graduation outcomes and education of children can have a major impact on society. Good education will build a good prospect in the students lives, until they mature later.
A study conducted on high school students found that the graduation rate rose to 25 percent in trancendental students who meditate twice a day, as reported by the Daily Mail.
This meditation technique is done with a mumbled voice that repeated many times with my eyes closed. To do so, students say Omm ... at the time of meditation, closing the eyes for 20 minutes, twice a day.
Not only can boost brain power, this meditation technique is also known to reduce the risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and reduce stress and anxiety. This technique was once famous in the 60s, after a member of The Beatles traveled to India and taught do this meditation technique.
In a study that looked at 235 students in urban schools the United States showed an increase in the graduation rate to 15 percent in children who do trancendental meditation techniques regularly. Not only that, students who meditate also smaller risk of being expelled from school or go to jail.
Professor Robert Colbert from the University of Connecticut explained that improving graduation outcomes and education of children can have a major impact on society. Good education will build a good prospect in the students lives, until they mature later.
Diet Meditation Exercise Can Improve Immune Cell Aging
Monday, February 3, 2014
A small pilot study shows for the first time that changes in diet, exercise, stress management and social support may result in longer telomeres, the parts of chromosomes that affect aging.
It is the first controlled trial to show that any intervention might lengthen telomeres over time.
The study will be published online on Sept. 16, 2013 in The Lancet Oncology.
The study was conducted by scientists at UC San Francisco and the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, a nonprofit public research institute in Sausalito, Calif. that investigates the effect of diet and lifestyle choices on health and disease. The researchers say they hope the results will inspire larger trials to test the validity of the findings.
“Our genes, and our telomeres, are not necessarily our fate,” said lead author Dean Ornish, MD, UCSF clinical professor of medicine, and founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute.
“So often people think ‘Oh, I have bad genes, there’s nothing I can do about it,’” Ornish said. “But these findings indicate that telomeres may lengthen to the degree that people change how they live. Research indicates that longer telomeres are associated with fewer illnesses and longer life.”
Telomeres are the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes that affect how quickly cells age. They are combinations of DNA and protein that protect the ends of chromosomes and help them remain stable. As they become shorter, and as their structural integrity weakens, the cells age and die quicker.
In recent years, shorter telomeres have become associated with a broad range of aging-related diseases, including many forms of cancer, stroke, vascular dementia, cardiovascular disease, obesity, osteoporosis and diabetes.
For five years, the researchers followed 35 men with localized, early-stage prostate cancer to explore the relationship between comprehensive lifestyle changes, and telomere length and telomerase activity. All the men were engaged in active surveillance, which involves closely monitoring a patient’s condition through screening and biopsies.
Ten of the patients embarked on lifestyle changes that included: a plant-based diet (high in fruits, vegetables and unined grains, and low in fat and ined carbohydrates); moderate exercise (walking 30 minutes a day, six days a week); stress reduction (gentle yoga-based stretching, breathing, meditation). They also participated in weekly group support.
They were compared to the other 25 study participants who were not asked to make major lifestyle changes.
The group that made the lifestyle changes experienced a “significant” increase in telomere length of approximately 10 percent. Further, the more people changed their behavior by adhering to the recommended lifestyle program, the more dramatic their improvements in telomere length, the scientists learned.
By contrast, the men in the control group who were not asked to alter their lifestyle had measurably shorter telomeres – nearly 3 percent shorter – when the five-year study ended. Telomere length usually decreases over time.
The researchers say the findings may not be limited to men with prostate cancer, and are likely to be relevant to the general population.
“We looked at telomeres in the participants’ blood, not their prostate tissue,” said Ornish.
The new study is a follow up to a similar, three-month pilot investigation in 2008 in which the same participants were asked to follow the same lifestyle program. After three months, the men in the initial study exhibited significantly increased telomerase activity. Telomerase is an enzyme that repairs and lengthens telomeres.
The new study was designed to determine if the lifestyle changes would affect telomere length and telomerase activity in these men over a longer time period.
“This was a breakthrough finding that needs to be confirmed by larger studies,” said co-senior author Peter R. Carroll, MD, MPH, professor and chair of the UCSF Department of Urology.
“Telomere shortening increases the risk of a wide variety of chronic diseases,” Carroll said. “We believe that increases in telomere length may help to prevent these conditions and perhaps even lengthen lifespan.”
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