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Meditation improves heart health

Because heart disease is prevalent in the African-American community, a home-based intervention was designed to investigate methods of reducing risk factors. At an average age of 59 years, 201 people who were clinically obese were randomly assigned to participate in a Transcendental Meditation stress-reducing program or a health education class about lifestyle modification.

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