4 Most Important Benefits of Practicing Yoga
Yoga is a well known psychical and mental form of exercise originating from India, but did you know about the most important benefits you can get from practicing it?
Yoga soothes asthma. About two hours of exercising yoga a week for a period of 10 weeks leads to reducing of asthma symptoms by majority of patients as reported by American College of Sports Medicine.
Yoga prevents overeating. Binge eaters who participated in 10-week yoga therapy managed to reduce the number of bingeing episodes per week from 5 to average of less than two shows a study from University of the Rockies. Yoga helps people to be more present and with it’s help people become more avare of their eating habits which leads to developing of healthier diet strategies and better dealing with emotions that previously led to binges.
Yoga reverses metabolic syndrome. People at high risk of developing diabetes lowered their risk factors for the disease – including BMI, insulin level, blood pressure and total and LDL-cholesterol levels after practicing yoga for 3 months.
Yoga eases backaches. People suffering from lower back-pain had less pain and depression after doing yoga twice a week for 6 months.
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