A new study indicates that the act of tightly wrapping the leather straps of tefillin around the arm on an almost daily basis by observant Jewish men during prayer could help prevent heart attacks.
“We found people who wear tefillin in either the short or long-term, recorded a measurable positive effect on their blood flow. That has been associated with better outcomes in heart disease,” said Dr. Jack Rubinstein, a cardiologist and associate professor at the University of Cincinnati, who co-authored the study.
Results of the study were published last month in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology and could explain previous Israeli studies that had found that religious men (but not women) suffered fewer heart attacks than the general population.
Read more at Times of Israel.
{Matzav.com}
This is so ignorant and stupid. Unless tefillin was being put on both men and women of a wide spectrum of ages and ethnicities (which of course it wasn’t), this study has zero value.
Huh? Why would something have to be done by both both men and women of a wide spectrum of ages and ethnicities
for study to have more than zero value?
If a large group of people do something with an apparent result that isn’t shared with those who don’t do it that indicates a possible correlation.
I don’t put much value on this study either but you seem to have an emotional, not logical, reason for not wanting to believe it.
Now women will want to put on the tephillim this will open up a can of worms. Women’s lives matter so go for it, but being counted in for the minyom is different.
Cluck cluck. Do Kapparas too. It might reduce world shame.
Binding writ. Are you health conscious. Tell me your diet.
Apparently the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology didn’t agree with your assessment.
Besides the fact that I fail to follow the logic of your comment.
Care to enlighten?