{"id":200,"date":"2006-07-04T10:46:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T01:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2006-07-04T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T01:46:56","slug":"praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Praying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Cruyff made the comment that in Spain all the 22 football players make a cross when entering the football pitch. He commented that if praying or making a cross would really help, as both teams made a cross all the football games should end in a draw.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent article in the <a title=\"Prayer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&amp;articleID=000AFE22-9D1E-146C-9D1E83414B7F0000\" class=\"broken_link\">Scientific American<\/a> it seems that praying to actually can have the opposite effect. In a $ 2.4 million research study it was discovered that there was no significant change whether there was a group of about 70 praying for the recovery of patients undergoing heart surgery or not.<br \/>\nHowever, when the patient knew about the prayer group this would  create stress and his or her chances of recovery actually became worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The patient might think, &#8216;Am I so sick that they have to call in the prayer team?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott Adams wrote this on the article in his <a title=\"Scott Adams\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\/the_dilbert_blog\/2006\/07\/praying_for_sic.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Dilbert Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to say that I wasn\u2019t surprised to learn that praying for sick people didn\u2019t help. If praying worked, convenience stores would have lines of monks down the block every time the lottery reached $100 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Cruyff made the comment that in Spain all the 22 football players make a cross when entering the football pitch. He commented that if praying or making a cross would really help, as both teams made a cross all the football games should end in a draw. In a recent article in the Scientific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workvitamins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}