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The Outstanding Health Benefits of Yoga

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; text-align: left;">Yoga is an effective exercise that helps you strengthen your muscles and soothe your body and mind. Yoga not only helps you relax and feel at ease, but also new research shows it produces many outstanding physical and mental health benefits.</span></div>
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Here are some of the many benefits of doing yoga:</div>
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<li style="line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><b>Reduces stress</b> – Yoga focuses on meditation and helps you forget about your hectic day and any problems you may be coping with. The relaxing activity is scientifically proven to reduce stress and anxiety. According to a recent study at the University of California, participants who did yoga for 12 minutes a day for 8 weeks experienced a lowered response in their immune systems’ inflammation. Inflammation occurs when the body is overstressed and is a major contributor to many stress-related chronic diseases.</li>
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<li style="line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><b>Improves cognitive functions</b> – In addition to reducing stress, another study suggests yoga can improve your cognitive function. According to a study at the University of Illinois, doing just 20 minutes of yoga a day helps increase your brain function and improve your concentration and ability to retain information.</li>
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<li style="line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><b>Helps people manage bipolar disorder</b> – According to the Journal of Psychiatric Practice, doing yoga can help people manage bipolar disorder. The study surveyed a group of 100 people and asked them to rate how yoga has impacted their lives and helped their ability to cope with bipolar disorder. Most participants reported yoga provided positive emotional effects and reduced anxiety, and one in five people called yoga life-changing.</li>
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<li style="line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><b>Boosts flexibility</b> – When you perform yoga poses you are stretching your muscles, which helps you loosen your muscles and become more flexible. Research shows people who did yoga for just </li>
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<li style="line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><b>Increases Muscle tone</b> – While yoga is a calming activity, it’s also very physical. Many yoga poses enhance your core and increase your muscle tone. These poses help you build strength in your hamstrings, upper body, quadriceps, abs, and lower back.</li>
<li style="line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><b>Better posture</b> –Yoga involves several standing and sitting poses, which requires you to use your muscles. You work your muscles to maintain these poses, which helps you become more flexible and strong, as well as improve your posture. Yoga helps you develop a stronger core and become more consciousness of your body. By practicing yoga, you’ll be more inclined to stand tall and sit straight up.</li>
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As you can see, yoga produces many physical and mental benefits that can improve your health and overall wellbeing. To get the most out of your yoga experience, <span style="color: #d02028;"><span style="-webkit-transition: 0.14s; transition: 0.14s;">shop for yoga gear online</span></span> and make yoga apart of your daily routine.</div>
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The Outstanding Health Benefits of Yoga

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6 Surprising Effects of Obesity

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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A new study finds that obesity increases your risk of Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, and more. Let's take a look at some other shocking effects of the epidemic.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There's a good reason obesity was classified as a disease a couple years ago: It can increase your risk of autoimmune diseases (conditions where the immune system attacks its own body), such as Crohn's disease and multiple sclerosis, according to a meta-analysis published in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Autoimmunity Reviews</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Surprised? It turns out that a hormone secreted by fat tissue can create an environment that breeds inflammation and allows autoimmune diseases to flourish, according to the study. Sadly, autoimmune diseases aren't the only downsides of obesity. Here are a few more:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: red;">Cancer:</span></b></span> Specifically, breast, colon, endometrium, esophagus, gallbladder, kidney, pancreas, and thyroid cancer. Fat produces high levels of estrogen, which has been linked to a higher risk of cancer, and leptin (a type of adipokine), which may stimulate the growth of cancer cells. According to the National Cancer Institute, there will be an additional half million new cases of cancer by 2030, if obesity trends continue to increase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: red;">Your child's risk of heart disease:</span></b></span> You already know that obesity increases <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">your</em>risk of heart disease, but it's bad news for your children, too. Children of overweight or obese mothers had a 90 percent higher risk of cardiovascular disease or death, according to research presented at the American Heart Association 2014 Scientific Sessions in Chicago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: red;">Fatty liver:</span></b></span> Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is the number-one liver disease in the U.S. According to the CDC, approximately 29 million Americans suffer from it. Obesity causes insulin resistance, which might contribute to the disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: red;">Sleep apnea:</span></b></span> The effects of obesity on sleep come from the extra weight obstructing the upper airways, whether through enlarge tonsils, enlarged tongue, or an increase in neck fat, according to a study published in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: red;">More sick days</span></b>:</span> The effects of obesity spill into the workplace by lowering productivity and increasing the number of days that workers are out for obesity-related illnesses, says the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.</em> Researchers estimate that this may cost American businesses $8.65 million dollars a year.</span></div>
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6 Surprising Effects of Obesity

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A new study finds that obesity increases your risk of Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, and more. Let's take a look at some other shocking effects of the epidemic. There's a good reason obesity was classified as a disease a couple years ago: It c… read more »

15Dec2014