Yoga has proven benefits for one’s overall health and well being, but as with all cardio activity, it can also help weight loss as well.
Studies have shown that people who practice yoga on a regular basis managed to prevent the effects of age related weight gain over a period of 10 years, specifically they weighed on average 3 pounds less than those who did no yoga at all.
Overweight men and women who participated in the study and took up yoga thereafter were reported to have lost on average 5 pounds, whilst those who did not gained on average 15 pounds over the course of the study.
An interesting fact about the study is that the yoga that participants practiced was not of a particularly high or advanced level.
Whilst more studies are needed to draw firm conclusions about yoga, the present studies allow us to speculate that yoga, when practiced regularly, has great benefits for overall health.
Such benefits include but are not limited to the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga helps tone and strengthen the body and build muscle over time. Cardio and circulatory benefits are noted too. The mental benefits include relaxation and ease of emotional stressed and strains. Spiritually yoga can help with positive thought and increase in sense of self-esteem. Depending on which path you use, it may also develop your spiritual ability to forgive and see more beauty in the world in which we live. Weight loss is only one great aspect to the overall benefit of yoga.
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