{"id":1965,"date":"2014-04-19T22:21:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T22:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/blog\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2014-04-19T22:21:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T22:21:18","slug":"does-meditation-have-health-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/mindwaves\/?p=1965","title":{"rendered":"Does Meditation Have Health Benefits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/44916-meditation-health-benfits.html','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly\\&quot; style=\\&quot;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/i.livescience.com\/images\/i\/000\/029\/330\/original\/meditation-sea-120725.jpg?1343291421\\&quot; class=\\&quot;thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;a class=\\'embedly-title\\' target=\\'_blank\\' href=\\'http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/44916-meditation-health-benfits.html\\'&gt;Does Meditation Have Health Benefits?&lt;\/a&gt;\\&quot;The Healthy Geezer\\&quot; answers questions about health and aging in his weekly column. Question: Does meditating have any real health benefits? Answer: Meditation definitely reduces stress. And too much stress is bad for your health. There is some research that indicates meditation may help with: Allergies, anxiety, asthma, binge eating, cancer, depression, fatigue, heart disease, high blood pressure, pain, sleep difficulties and substance abuse.&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;span class=\\&quot;embedly-powered\\&quot; style=\\&quot;float:right;display:block\\&quot;&gt;&lt;a target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot; href=\\&quot;http:\/\/embed.ly\/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F44916-meditation-health-benfits.html\\&quot; title=\\&quot;Powered by Embedly\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\&quot; alt=\\&quot;Embedly Powered\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;media-attribution\\&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;via &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;a href=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.livescience.com\\&quot; class=\\&quot;media-attribution-link\\&quot; target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot;&gt;Livescience&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;'}\">\n<div class=\"embedly\" style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.livescience.com\/images\/i\/000\/029\/330\/original\/meditation-sea-120725.jpg?1343291421\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" \/><a class='embedly-title' target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/44916-meditation-health-benfits.html'>Does Meditation Have Health Benefits?<\/a>&#8220;The Healthy Geezer&#8221; answers questions about health and aging in his weekly column. Question: Does meditating have any real health benefits? Answer: Meditation definitely reduces stress. And too much stress is bad for your health. There is some research that indicates meditation may help with: Allergies, anxiety, asthma, binge eating, cancer, depression, fatigue, heart disease, high blood pressure, pain, sleep difficulties and substance abuse.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/embed.ly\/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F44916-meditation-health-benfits.html\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attribution\"><span>via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Livescience<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Meditation Have Health Benefits?&#8220;The Healthy Geezer&#8221; answers questions about health and aging in his weekly column. Question: Does meditating have any real health benefits? Answer: Meditation definitely reduces stress. And too much stress is bad for your health. There &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/mindwaves\/?p=1965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindwaves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}