A recent email from the yarn (纺纱) company Red Heart titled "Health Benefits of Crocheting and Knitting" prompted me to explore what else might be known about the health value of activities like knitting.
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A woman encouraged to try knitting and crocheting after developing an autoimmune disease that caused a lot of hand pain reported on the Craft Yam Council site that her hands are now less stiff and painful.
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About 15 years ago, I was invited to join a knitting group.
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Activities like knitting and crocheting make it harder for the brain to register pain signals.
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Among her respondents, 54 percent of those who were clinically depressed said that knitting made them feel happy or very happy.
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Betsan Corkhill, a wellness coach in Bath, England, and author of the book Knit for Health and Wellness, established a website, Stitchlinks, to explore the value of what she calls therapeutic knitting.
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For example, Karen Hayes, a life coach in Toronto, conducts knitting therapy programs, including Knit to Quit to help smokers give up the habit, and Knit to Heal for people coping with health crises, like a cancer diagnosis or serious illness of a family
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I for one try not to miss a single weekly meeting of my knitting group.
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I take a knitting project with me everywhere, especially when I have to sit still and listen.
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Just as it's challenging to smoke while knitting, when hands are holding needles and hooks, there's less snacking and mindless eating out of boredom.
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Once you get beyond the initial learning curve, knitting and crocheting can lower heart rate and blood pressure.
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Perhaps most exciting is research that suggests that crafts like knitting and crocheting may help to keep off a decline in brain function with age.
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She suggested that the brain can process just so much at once, and that activities like knitting and crocheting make it harder for the brain to register pain signals.
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The study, published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, found that those who engaged in crafts like knitting and crocheting had a diminished chance of developing mild cognitive disorder and memory loss.
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Then decades passed without my touching a knitting needle.
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