Yoga Fights Fat
This is great news for yoga fanatics and anyone curious about burning fat without spending hours in the gym!
Yoga helps your body to burn fat. Yes, you read me correctly.
The results of a study by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center concluded that practising yoga helps to promote weight loss. The reserchers focussed on 15,500 healthy middle aged people and got them to practise yoga for at least 30 minutes, once a week for four years or more.
Those who were overweight and practised yoga actually lost weight during the period of time.
Dr. Alan R. Kristal, the lead researcher said:
“During a very vigorous yoga practice you can burn enough calories to lose weight, but most people don’t practice that kind of yoga,” he said. “From my experience, I think it has to do with the way that yoga makes you more aware of your body. So when you’ve eaten enough food, you’re sensitive to the feeling of being full, and this makes it much easier to stop eating before you’ve eaten too much.”
Denise Benitez from Seattle Yoga Arts, adds. “When we practice yoga, although it may look easy, there is some mild discomfort. You bring your body to a physical edge that’s just a little bit challenging. And people who regularly practice yoga develop the inner resources to stay with a little bit of discomfort. They develop a softness inside and an ability to stay mindful. So that when you go home after yoga class and open up the fridge and see a chocolate cake, you have the resources to stay with the discomfort of not eating that chocolate cake.”
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