Healthy Families

Archive for September 30th, 2010

In today’s society, overweight is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Lifestyles are becoming more sedentary; the diet of the people is increasingly processed and fatty food additives and contains more calories and preservatives. Children prefer TV over playing with your friends who may be a direct result of parents who prefer television in the socialization or even take the time to their children. This only scratches the surface of the social movement towards a sedentary and unhealthy which is increasingly fatter.

Yoga is a discipline to make the body strong and flexible, to improve the overall health of the digestive system and circulatory and hormonal systems. It also helps control stress and achieves mental peace and clarity of mind. Yoga also has great spiritual benefits, you will see more and more content with yourself and more comfortable with whom you are all aspects that lead to emotional stability. This mental component is often overlooked in a physical approach to weight loss, but it is essential and should not be overlooked. The so-called “Comfort Food” is a common problem for people who diet yo-yo (and rapidly losing weight gain) and the ability to be happy with their health and they are reducing the need.

Yoga is based on deep, controlled breathing, which is a method for increasing oxygen consumption. This allows oxygen to travel to the fat cells in our body and assist in their transformation. One must wonder, given the advantages why more people do not practice yoga?

Many people think of Yoga as a discipline passive or mystical – something for hippies – not them. It is a pity that yoga improves physical body and our mental health. Although practiced by many people in the populations of this is only 2% of the population in the United States click on the many benefits.

Yoga considers all aspects that contribute to obesity – not just physical but also mental and spiritual reasons behind them. Regular yoga is not only relaxing, but it makes the body back to your ideal weight and at the same time to improve strength, flexibility and endurance. Yoga nuts tend to be thin, agile and efficient in everything they do and what is more suitable for people of all ages.

A more active form of yoga, Kundalini, was introduced in America in 1969 by Yogi Bahaman. This is a more active form of the combination of different methods of yoga breathing, meditation and movement to compensate for the fact that the American public has been conditioned to think of exercise that requires sweat.

Yoga can also be used to resist the temptation to snack between meals. Yoga techniques learned can be used to suppress impulses such as we have in mind hunger between meals (if you eat a regular meal cannot be hungry – just bored or restless).

Yoga is not just a weight loss method really is a method that restores the natural balance of our body and moves us to our natural state. This has an interesting consequence with weight. We are overweight then yes, yoga regularly will make us lose weight. However, if we are at our ideal weight, we do not drop the weight, and if we have too little weight, gain weight until we are in our biologically natural size.