Dear Listfriends,
For those interested (what about praying for stem cell research?):
o The Power of Prayer: More Evidence
http://www.ivanhoe.com/docs/newsflash/thepowerofprayermoreevidence.html
The Power of Prayer: More Evidence
--Reported by Bette BonFleur
June 18, 2001 (Ivanhoe Newswire); Clinical studies
continue to show prayer heals. Dr. Larry Dossey, author of "Reinventing
Medicine" and
"Prayer is Good Medicine," revealed the results of a second phase study
at
Duke University on the power of prayer. Dossey was keynote speaker,
Saturday in
Boulder, Colo. at the annual conference of ISSSEEM (The International
Association
for the study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine).
The MANTRA project at Duke is headed up by cardiologist Dr.
Mitchell Krucoff and nurse practitioner, Susan Craven. The results show
that heart patients who receive prayer have 50 percent to 100 percent
fewer side effects than those patients not prayed for.
If patients agreed to be part of the study they were
randomized and the "prayer" patients' names went to prayer groups around
the world. First names only were sent via e-mail to Buddhist groups in
Nepal, Hindus in India and Jewish groups in Jerusalem. Catholic nuns,
Unity Village Missouri and Protestants in North Carolina also
participated.
The full report on the study will be published in an upcoming
issue of the American Journal of Cardiology, according to Dossey. It
will be the first time a heart journal has published a study on the
effects of "distance" prayer. Dossey also noted hundreds of other
studies on the power of prayer that, until now, have been mostly ignored
by the allopathic, or traditional medical community. However based
on the Duke study Dossey concluded, "There's no going back. This is a
huge transition in medicine. Medicine will not be able to retreat from
the impact."
Copyright © 2001 Ivanhoe Broadcast News, Inc.
--
Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD
Author: "Eat well, stay well with Parkinson's disease"
"Constipation and Parkinson's" -- audiocassette & guidebook
"Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy for Parkinson's
disease" & Risk Assessment Tools
"Risk for malnutrition and bone fracture in Parkinson's
disease," J Nutr Elderly. V18:3;1999.
http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/
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