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  • Meditation can help you drink less

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    Worried about your drinking? If you fear you're hitting the bottle a little too much, just a few minutes of mindfulness meditation every day could help you cut back, new research has found.

    People who start the meditation are often drinking around nine units of alcohol less a week, and that could be enough to take them below the maximum 'danger' threshold set by health agencies.

  • Meditation keeps you sharp as you get older

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    Meditation helps you stay focused, and that's especially true for older meditators who can develop superior cognitive skills such as a better attention span, a new research study has found.

    Older people who meditate for up to an hour a day have better cognitive abilities than others of a similar age who meditate less or not at all, researchers from the University of California at Davis have discovered.

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