Want an easy way to stay healthy during cold and flu
season?
Meditate.
And of yes, exercise helps, too.
A neat study over 8 weeks involving roughly 150 people
broken into 3 groups – one that did mindful meditation (is there any other way
to meditate than with your mind? Never mind), one that did moderate-level
exercise, one that was a placebo group – determined that the meditators and the
exercisers had significantly fewer colds, lost way less time from work, and
when they did get sick anyway, both those active-treatment groups had
significantly milder cold symptoms that the do-nothing placebo guys.
Needs confirmation in a much larger study but until
someone does that, what is there to lose by practicing relaxation and doing
exercise?
