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Diet and Yoga for weight loss

Asanas and diets for lossing weight
( 8 Oct 2007)

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Diet and Yoga for weight loss 

Weight loss can be effectively achieved with a proper diet and yoga asanas. Asanas such as the shoulder stand and the fish position are particularly meant to stimulate the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is mainly responsible for sluggish metabolism and it helps to correct these imbalances with yoga. Yoga increases fat metabolism thereby altering fat to muscle and energy. With the right diet you will lose fat and also have experience enhanced muscle tone and increased vitality.

The deep breathing technique in yoga helps in enhancing the oxygen inhalation to the cells in the body, including the fat cells. Increased oxygen results in burning up of fat cells. Another amazing facet of Yoga asanas is that it brings down anxious thoughts and tension which, in turn, cuts down overeating. It is a common tendency to swallow food or binge on food in moments of tension. Doing so makes us consume more than what is necessary for our body. Yoga thus plays a vital role in controlling the diet through its various asanas and deep breathing meditative techniques.  Deep breathing yoga and other yoga asanas such as the tree pose, the sun salute, the triangle pose, the locust pose, and the camel pose, are instrumental in weight loss.

answered by C D on 10 Apr 2008, 5:21:33

 

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