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Motivating Walking by Wearing a Pedometer and Meditation, Keep Adolescents Healthy
In one of three studies presented at the American Psychosomatic Society Annual Meeting in Portland, Ore, Dr. Barnes said a positive attitude and family environment increases the effectiveness of the interventions. The research comparing breathing awareness meditation to health education and life-skills training discovered that all methods improved blood pressure.
Dr. Barnes, who has studied the effect of mediation on cardiovascular health for over a decade at MCG, has documented the improved stress reactivity in black adolescents with high normal blood pressures as well as lower blood pressures in black, inner-city adolescents who meditate twice daily.
Meditation also sharpens the mind for education.
Dr. Barnes said: "When you come to school with a stressed mind, you cant do as well.
"The benefit of calming your mind is preparing it to learn."
A review of school records showed meditating adolescents miss fewer days and generally behave better, he pointed out.
Another study demonstrated that the blood pressure of students in a high school-based walking program decreased after just 16 weeks compared with non-participating peers. Dr. Barnes, part of an adult team competing with a group of high school students to see which can walk the farthest, said the pedometer inspired adolescents to walk.
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