Yoga For Weight Loss

Obesity is assuming epidemic proportions. 61% of Americans aged 20 and plus are obese. 25% of adult Americans (close to 100 millions) are overweight. Since 1980 the number of overweight children between six and 17 has doubled and the number of obese adolescents has tripled.

Being the most widespread nutritional problem of our times, obesity has emerged as the single biggest health risk leading to diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, heart disease and common forms of cancers such as breast, colon, prostate & uterine cancers.

The weight loss industry is a billion dollar concern that presents the dieter with a bewildering array of methods to help loose those extra inches, however statistics show that no more than seven percent of dieters are able to maintain the short term weight loss they achieve.

Yoga - the inexpensive approach

Yoga, an inexpensive regime of systematized breathing exercises, physical postures and diet, does not look at obesity in exclusion to the rest of the physiology, but takes a holistic approach the functioning of the body.

The idea behind the discipline of yoga is to take a holistic approach to health rather than concentrating on a particular disorder - in this case the need to lose weight. This means that while you think that you are targeting your bulge, yoga is not only taking care of your girth but also a host of other body malfunctions you may or may not be aware of.

Fortunately, obesity is the first among a number of other problems that respond to yoga sessions from not only the day one but from the first hour itself, as has been seen in overwhelmingly large number of cases.

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