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Despite the limited caloric burning powers of yoga, a
recent study suggests that it might enable the middle-aged people
to curb weight gain. Yoga is a physical training program that
involves meditations and slow stretches. The findings of the research
depicted that overweight individuals in their 50s who practiced
yoga on a regular basis lost approximated 5 pounds over a 10 year
span of time. At the same token, people of the equal age range
who did not do yoga gained over 13 pounds over the duration of
the time. In
essence, over the span of a decade middle-aged people of normal
weight normally pack on the pounds; however, the individual
who practiced yoga gained less weight than the people who did
not engage in yoga. Despite the findings, a researcher/co-author
of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center study, Alan Kristal’s
opinion, the link between weight loss and yoga is futile.
Since
people who practice yoga are more in tuned with their bodies,
they are more prone to make healthy eating choices and be more
cognizant of bad habits. Not to mention, yoga alleviates stress
and depression; as a result, people are less apt to eat out
of boredom or anxiety. Not to mention, aside from the extremely
strenuous yoga practices, insufficient energy is burned to counter
weight gain.
In
conclusion, researchers’ compiled data from more than 15,000
individual ages (53 to 57). They were surveyed about diet, exercise,
weight and their health histories. The published findings of
the Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine portrayed how
individuals who practiced yoga were more apt to avoid junk food
and over consumption because they were more attuned to the needs
of their bodies. |
