Yoga for Your Health

Yoga has a well-earned reputation is a surefire stress reducer  (particularly when combined with meditation) and new studies show the simple stretching regimen can also help treat and prevent a number of other ailments, from back pain to diabetes. In a recent study researchers found that taking a single yoga class can help you lower levels of cortisol, a stress hormone. Research reveals five ways your health improves every time you strike s pose.

Yoga Surefire Benefits (Based on different studies Worldwide):

• Eases Backaches: Chronic lower-back pain sufferers experienced less pain and depression after practicing yoga twice a week for 6 months- according to the journal Spine.
• Soothes Asthma: After doing two and half hours of yoga a week for 10 weeks, asthma patients reported reduces symptoms, found the American College of Sports Medicine.
• Prevents Mindless Eating: Binge eaters who participated in a 10 week yoga therapy programme reduced the number of bingeing episodes per week from five to an average of less than two, found the University of Rockies.
• Reduces Headaches: After practicing yoga for 4 months, migraine and tension headache patients reported a significant reduction in such incidences, found a study conducted by the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai.
• Reverses Metabolic Syndrome: People at high risk factors of developing diabetes lowered their risk factors for the disease after doing yoga for three moths.

The benefits of yoga are numerous. The driving force of yoga is aimed at the monumental, life-changing discovery of who and what you actually are. This is precisely how yoga works, how it makes you feel good.

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