Meditate and exercise to avoid flu this winter
Searching
for ways to avoid getting sick this winter? Regular exercises and meditation
may help ward off cold and flu, a study says.
The
study published in the journal PLoS One
included 390 adults who were divided into three groups. The first group
undertook meditation classes for eight weeks, while the second took exercise
classes for eight weeks. The third group took neither of the classes. However,
all the groups had to receive flu
shots.
According
to Madison.com, the maximum numbers of cold and flu incidents were recorded in
the third group, where the members had to miss 105 working days due to 134 respiratory
infection episodes.
Meanwhile,
the meditation group had 112 respiratory infection episodes, for which they
missed 73 days of work and the exercise group had 120 episodes and missed 82
days of work.
However,
exercises and meditation enabled the meditation group to cope up with the cold
and flu situation by 17 per cent, while the exercise-only group could cope up
by 15 per cent. Read
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