Yoga for weight loss
Yoga has been for centuries a practice of relaxation which has been transformed to the present day with new techniques. Originally, yoga achieve the mental and spiritual solace through meditation. Currently the goal of yoga is not only heal your mind, but also your body.
A skill that yoga has become more important has been the reduction of excess weight and lead people to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Yoga can not only improve your flexibility, but in the long run, keep your weight to that reduces or even a few pounds, say researchers from the Cancer Research Center Fred Hutchinson in Seattle.
This is the first study of its kind and the results surprised the researchers, people who regularly practiced yoga lost about 5 pounds in 10 years. On the other hand, people who had normal weight and practiced yoga increased 3 pounds less than those not practicing yoga. In general, yoga helps you lose a few pounds, but is most effective if practiced regularly and is included as part of a healthy lifestyle and active.
Relaxation techniques, such as postures, breathing and meditation are used in yoga seems to help regulate hormonal changes, emotional and metabolism.
Metabolism is controlled by hormones. The thyroid is involved in producing various kinds of hormones that help burn calories. Yoga, in turn, is helping the thyroid to become more efficient and achieving an increase in our metabolism. Its benefits extend even further to improve your circulation and rid the body of toxic substances.
As the researchers, the postures in yoga are very important to help increase your caloric expenditure and decrease stress, anxiety and concerns, which are caused by increased food consumption. The practice of meditation that promotes yoga is useful to overcome negative emotions.
Dr. Kristal concluded indirectly that yoga is beneficial for weight loss by promoting healthy lifestyles by encouraging physical discipline and promote a general state of well being.
Dr. Janine Blackman, the center of medicine of the University of Maryland, believes that yoga produces decrease in stress hormones, which will benefit by reducing the resistance to insulin action that is the cause of abdominal obesity .
Both researchers agree that further research is required to remove some loose ends as the people who participated in the study did not report the type of yoga practiced and that the data provided may not be as accurate as this depends heavily on the honesty and the memory of people.
The advantage of yoga in older people is that motivates them to perform light exercise, as it is known that many older people fail to do so because it is painful, so Dr. Kristal recommends yoga not so intense that is attractive for those who do not like exercise.