HEALTH & FITNESS: Lose Weight with Yoga

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Looks like there's more that Yoga could offer apart from Mindfulness techniques to counter binge-eating.

But first is additional information that Yoga could indeed help women who have weight-loss objectives. Here is a particular quote from FitnessMagazine.com that supports the suggestion that meditation and yogic breathing offers "surprising health benefits" to those under the stress of weight-loss:

Yogic breathing techniques are powerful tools for alleviating serious anxiety and depression and neutralizing the negative effects of stress, says recent research in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. That's because yogic breathing can lower the heart rate and calm the nervous system, says Patricia L. Gerbarg, MD, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, and one of the study's authors.

And as if things couldn't get any better, there is one particular Yoga exercise that aids women in their weight-loss goals-setting, mind-conditioning, and diet and exercise - The Seated Spinal Twist. This "Twisting can aid digestion by helping the absorption of nutrients and the elimination of waste," according to FitnessMagazine.com.

Furthermore, an overwhelming information leaves me nothing else but quote the experts themselves:


Researchers can't say exactly why, but two recent studies show that yoga helps with weight loss and maintenance. After surveying more than 15,000 adults, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle found that those who didn't practice yoga gained about 18.5 pounds more over a 10-year period than those who practiced for at least four years. A second study from the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, found that people who practiced yoga and meditation regularly, exercised, and watched their diet lost more weight than those who exercised and ate a healthy diet but skipped yoga. - FitnessMagazine.Com.


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