Knitting is no less a cure for yoga

The data collected from 15,000 volunteers showed that knitting also has the same benefits as yoga when repelling arthritis, dementia, depression.

Knit for Peace has proposed the National Health Service (NHS) to ask doctors to encourage patients to weave wool in parallel with treating some diseases. This could help the country save millions of pounds of medical expenses annually.

Data collected from 15,000 volunteers showed that wool knitting has the same benefits as yoga with the ability to repel many diseases and symptoms such as reducing chronic pain such as arthritis, lowering blood pressure, and keeping for a healthy mind and mind, thereby repelling depression and dementia .

Knitting wool can support the treatment of many diseases - (photo: Wanderlust).

For older people, people also find that this simple job helps reduce, the feeling of isolation as well as doing something that makes them feel useful for society.

In its new report, Knit for Peace argues that knitting wool is an inexpensive way to deal with a wide range of age-related issues, potentially becoming a popular and widely supported treatment method. Previous scientific research supported.

Scientists of Knit for Peace also evaluated the specific indicators of volunteers. They found that when weaving, the elderly's heart rate decreased by an average of 11 times per minute, creating a calm and healthy state similar to the state of the athletes perceived while exercising - which helps Stress hormone and blood pressure are reduced.

It also helps to cure by turning off the pain signals in the brain, while increasing the secretion of hormone serotonin, a neurological chemical that soothes mood and pain.

As for dementia, since the 1970s, a study of the Mayo Clinic in the US has shown that knitting reduces the rate of cognitive decline, thereby reducing the risk of developing Alzheimer's - deterioration. Top dangerous intelligence.

Knit for Peace - "Knit for peace" is a non-governmental organization dedicated to helping women who are victims of war by paying for their shirts and giving them back to orphans, poor. Movement for Knit for Peace quickly spread to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan. Later, the movement spread to England with petitions from many textile workers who wanted to support part of their work to donate clothes to refugees and expeditionary soldiers.