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They experience twice the number
o strokes.
In one study published in theJournal of
Gerontology, the authors sought to reveal an
association between private religious activ-
ities (meditation, prayer or Bible study)
and longer survival in certain groups.
Establishing controls or demographics
and health status, the researchers reported
that among community-dwelling adults
ages 64 to 101, persons with no disability
and little or no private religious activity ...
were 63 percent more likely to die over
the six-year period o the study.
Even ater controlling or social sup-port and health behaviors, investigators
ound that lack o private religious activity
continued to predict a 47 percent greater
risk o dying.
Another hospital study o cardiac patients,
this one conducted in 1999 at St. Lukes
Hospital o Kansas City, Missouri, ound
that a group o patients who received daily
prayer by Christian volunteers had shorter
recovery times with ewer complications
than the patients who received no prayer.
William Harris, Ph.D., who conducted
the study, concluded that prayer makes an
eective adjunct to standard medical care.
Nurture RelationshipsDavid B. Biebel, D.Min. (below),and Harold G. Koenig, M.D.
To be in a relation-
ship with someone is
one o the greatest
gits we are given in
this world, and ourrelationships with
other people are oten
key ingredients in our
ability to live happier, healthier lives. Good
relationships are good or youphysically,
psychologically, socially and spiritually.
Theres a good deal o re
showing that people who have
enduring social support have better
outcomes, said Frank Baker, Ph.D
president or behavioral research
national oce o the American
Society in Atlanta. Friends and r
are important because they help y
with the adversities o lie; youre li
have better health and be happier.
Emotional support rom am
riends buers stressul lie even
reduces the risk o (and speeds re
rom) depression.
When youve ha
day, it always helps to have a riendor a heart-to-heart talk or to take y
to do something un.
People with these kinds o
relationshipsincluding marriage
amily members and ri endslive
In act, they may even be more
to inection due to better immune
unctioning. Social support is als
ciated with less cigarette smokin
alcohol abuse, a healthier diet, mor
cise and better sleep quality.
Social support also helps people
rom illness. Research on people w
diovascular diseases suggests that clo
tionships help protect heart attack su
against uture cardiovascular proble
British researcher Dr. Francis
and his colleagues ocused on 58
and women, all about age 60, all h
ized with heart attacks. Each patie
asked about emotional issues, inc
what social support he had. The p
also took tests to determine wheth
were anxious or depressed.A year later, those who had
personal condant had 50 perce
risk o dying rom heart diseas
those without. In describing hi
ings, Creed explained, Its the de
intimacy o close relationshipsn
Waysto
StayHealthy
Live a Life of FaithJames P. Gills, M.D.
Clinical evidence
and ormal research
studies published in
a variety o medical
journals prove the
positive inluence
o religious aith on
health and healing.
This includes the benecial eects oellowship and worship attendance at a
church, private religious activities such as
daily devotional prayer, and intercessory
prayer (individuals praying or the healing
o other persons). So positive are these
eects that health practitioners are nding
aith dicult to ignore.
On the other hand, statistics reported on
www.WebMD.com give numerous negative
indications or people who do not attend
church or proess a aith in God:
Their average hospital stays are longer
than hospital stays or believers
They are several times more likely to
die ater surgery
They have a 40 percent higher death
rate rom heart disease and cancer
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These Christian health experts offer tips for you to achieve maximumhealth.
As Christians, we tend to be clued ino the need to exercise our aith. We pray, we read our
bles, we meditate on the Word, we go to church. In recent
ears, researchers have showed how important these activi-
es are to developing and maintaining health. In act, as the
atistics quoted below show, a vibrant aith-lie is one o the most
mportant keys to a healthy existence. But its not the only oneand
at truth is slowly beginning to dawn on believers as Christian medical
roessionals stress more and more vigorously the importance o caring
r the body as well as the spirit and soul. The ocus on physical ft-ess that has increased since the turn o the century is a trend that was
spired not by an ingenious marketing strategist but by God Himsel.
e wants us to live long, healthy lives so that we can change the world
r Him. I youve been nurturing your spiritual side but neglecting
e physical, here are seven keys to getting and staying in top shape:
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number o social contactsthat appears
to protect heart health.
Renew Your MindJanet Maccaro, Ph.D., C.N.C.
When it comes to
your health, your
thoughts are key.
Research studies
show that anxious,
earul thoughts
weaken the body and
can lead to illness,
while thoughts o love and other things
that evoke positive emotions lead to health
and healing. James Allen also makes this
point in his bookAs a Man Thinketh:Disease and health are rooted in
thought. Sickly thoughts will express
themselves through a sickly body. ... The
people who live in ear o disease are the
people who get it. Anxiety quickly demor-
alizes the whole body and lays it open
to the entrance o disease; while impure
thoughts, even i not physically indulged,
will soon aect the nervous system.
This is why the Bible tells us to be
anxious or nothing (Phil. 4:6, NKJV)
and to x our thoughts on things thatare true, honorable, right, pure, lovely,
admirable, excellent and worthy o praise
(see Phil. 4:8). Gods Word also says that
we must be transormed by the renewing
o our minds (see Rom. 12:2).
Most people are not very good at
preventing their thoughts rom taking a
negative turn, especially i they are hurt
emotionally or araid. I you want to renew
your mind, you must learn to consciously
monitor your thoughts daily, bringing
every thought into captivity to the obedi-ence o Christ (2 Cor. 10:5). In act, when
you are rst trying to regain a state o health,
you may need to monitor them minute by
minute until you get control.
One way to avoid replaying old tapes
o pain, sel-doubt and anxiety is to go
deep into the Word o God. Read and
study your Bible and invest in inspirational
tapes or praise and worship music. Memo-
rize Scriptures that reute your negative
thoughts and recite them when Satan
brings the negative thoughts to mind.
Another way is to orgive everyone whohas ever hurt you. Forgiveness is a primary
key to restoring health and wholeness to
both your body and your mind.
Laugh!David B. Biebel, D.Min., andHarold G. Koenig, M.D. (below)
In 1979, Norman
Cousins, then editor
o the Saturday Review,published his book
Anatomy of an Illness as
Perceived by the Patient,
which remained on
the New York Times
best-seller list or more than 40 weeks. The
book describes the authors miraculous
recovery rom a normally incurable disease.
How did Cousins recover? He laughed.
Ater taking himsel o all prescriptions
except intravenous vitamin C, he laughed
his way back to health by watching episodes oCandid Camera provided by his riend Allen
Funt, viewing old Marx Brothers lms and
having his nurse read to him rom books o
humor during the late night hours.
Laughter, as Cousins discovered, brings
numerous positive physical eects to the
human body. Here are just a ew:
Muscle relaxation. When you are
laughing, the muscles that are not partici-
pating in the laughter immediately relax.
As soon as you nish laughing, the mus-
cles that were participating in the laughterrelax, too.
Activation of the immune system
and reduction of stress. In a 1996 study
researchers proved that ater laughing a
great deal, participants immune systems
kicked into overdrive or at least 24 hours.
In addition, there was a drastic reduction
o at least our stress-causing hormones in
their bodies.
Pain reduction. In one study pub
lished by the Journal of Holistic Nursing
patients were told one-liners beore painu
medication was administered and ater surgery. The results suggested that those wh
were exposed to humor perceived less pai
when compared with patients who di
not receive a dose o humor as part o
their therapy.
Cardiorespiratory exercise. Som
physicians reer to laughter as interna
jogging because it causes your heart rat
to increase as it does when you exercise
Laughter also gives other parts o you
body a good workout. It is great or you
diaphragm as well as your abdominarespiratory, acial, leg and back muscle
It massages organs, tones intestinal unc
tioning and strengthens the muscles tha
hold the abdominal organs in place.
Lose WeightFrancisco Contreras, M.D.
Recent experi
ments with mice hav
proved that by dras
tically reducing thamount o calorie
we take in, while a
the same time main
taining a high-qualit
level o nutrition, we can add signican
years to our lives. As a matter o act,
we would eat one-third the calories w
normally eat, we could actually lengthe
our lives by about 24 years. This method
o losing weight and increasing longevit
is called caloric restriction.
Eating a nutritious diet o 30 percenewer calories can add 30 percent mor
time to your lie span, in addition to super
charging your overall good health. Tha
means that i you expect to live the averag
o 75 years, you can increase that amount t
97.5 years just by eating lessand you ca
live healthier, too!
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other words, you get sick.
Perhaps the ollowing analogy will help
to clariy what happens when the body
suers imbalance. I the ront end o your
car gets out o alignment, what happens? It
causes the tire treads to wear unevenly.Why? Because the misalignment causes
uneven stress on the tires, producing uneven
wear and tear.
The human body can be aected by
misalignment in the same way. The body
is a marvelous biomechanical structure
that consists o levers (bones), pulleys and
cables (tendons and ligaments), and cush-
ions (joints, disks and cartilage), which, i
maintained properly in balance, make or
a smooth ride. But when body parts
are in constant motion and lose theirmechanical advantage, the increased ric-
tion and pressure that results causes struc-
tures to break down, or degenerate, and
the result is oten severe pain.
Sadly, when people nd themselves in
a state o chronic pain, they generally seek
symptomatic relie through various means
such as pain medication, therapy and surgery
rather than allowing a proessional to deter-
mine the primary cause o their discomort
and correct it. In many cases, the answer is to
restore the balance in the body by realigningthe structures that have become compro-
mised. A chiropractic physician does this by
using his hands to manipulate the structure
and restore the proper mobility.
Follow Your UniquePathway to HealingReginald Cherry, M.D.
Throughout His
lie on earth, Jesus
healed all manner odisease. However, He
didnt heal everyone
in the same way. At
times He used a touch
or a word to heal an
inrm person instantly (see Luke 4:39-
40; 6:10). At other times He used natural
substances through which He caused His
healing power to fow.
The most striking example o the latter
method can be ound in the Gospel o
John, which relates the dramatic healing
o a blind man:As he went along, he saw a man blind
rom birth. He spit on the ground,
made some mud with the saliva, and put
it on the mans eyes. Go, he told him,
wash in the Pool o Siloam. So the
man went and washed, and came home
seeing (John 9:1, 6-7, NIV).
As this passage indicates, healing can
take place instantaneously or as a process
that occurs over time. In this case, Jesus
touched the blind mans eyes as He placed
the mud solution on him, but the manwas not immediately healed. His healing
was complete when he ollowed Jesus
instructions and washed his eyes in the
Pool o Siloam.
First, the man received a touch rom
Jesus. Then he accepted the application
o a natural substance onto the diseased
part o his body. And nally, he obeyed
Jesus unique instructions to him as an
individual.
The blind mans experience explains
or us one o the greatest health secrets othe Bible, one that is oten overlooked by
well-meaning Christians: God has a unique
pathway to healing or each person.
Let me state it another way: God heals
dierent people in dierent ways. Some
may attend a healing crusade and receive
an instant miracle rom the Lord. But more
commonly, God will work through the
natural substances that He has provided or
usnamely, various oods, vitamins, min-
erals and even medicationsto work out
His healing plan.Sometimes He uses a combination
o natural and supernatural methods
to eect a cure. The key lies in discov-
ering Gods plan or your own lie. Gods
pathway to healing is available to each o
us as we ollow His ways and listen to
His voice.3
Here are some o the benets o
caloric restriction:
Protection from the ravages
of toxins and stress. It is not known
exactly why eating less increases lie span.
Some experts believe that the process oconverting calories to energy builds up
toxins in the body, while others believe
that dietary restriction reduces the levels
o stress caused by oxidation.
There is little doubt that stress in any
orm takes a heavy toll. It seems that the
bodys labor o processing calories can
exact a cost in years and vitality.
Less free radical damage. Eating
ewer calories reduces the ree radical
damage in humans and animals. This
overall reduction in cellular injury romree radicals drastically extends the lie
o mammals.
Reduced DNA damage. Calorie
restriction also reduces DNA damage.
Some researchers believe that taking in
ewer calories has an impact on the rate
o normal damage to a persons DNA,
which in turn aects aging.
Dont drastically cut your own calo-
ries unless you are under the care o
a doctor. However, you can probably
aord to eat less ood than you do.I suggest that you get down to your
ideal weight, or even slightly below it
because the rst key or staying younger,
eeling better and living longer at any
age is to lose weight!
Balance the BodyScott Hannen, D.C.
The body is
a well-balanced,
biomechanicallyeicient struc-
ture. I its balance
is altered or any
reason, it becomes
mechanically dis-
advantaged, causing structures to shit
to compensate or the imbalance. In
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