The July/August issue of the Annals of Family Medicine has an interesting study looking at 149 adults older than 50 following either an 8-week mindfulness meditation practice or moderately intense exercise program, or neither. Those in the exercise and meditation groups had half the number of acute respiratory infections than those in the control group during the 8 week intervention: 257 days of illness in the meditation group, 241 days of illness in the exercise group, and 453 days of illness in the control group. The severity of the infections were least in the meditation group and worst in the control group, with the exercise group falling somewhere in-between. The meditation group also lost the least days of work.
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