The Surprising Health Benefits of Knitting

         Whether you are a seasoned knitter or you have never picked up a pair of knitting needles in your life, you may be surprised to find that knitting has been proved to have a number of health benefits.  1. It reduces symptoms of anxiety and stress  When our nervous systems is faced with a real or imagined threat, it goes into an all-too-familiar fight or flight response, flooding our blood with the stress hormone called cortisone. These battles your brain is facing may be large or small, they may even go unnoticed by you. But you know...