in the Netherlands conducted studies have shown a slightly different perspective on yoga. It turned out that yoga is not just to help calm the nervous system and achieve harmony and can help prevent heart disease, if a person has no opportunity for active sports.
About this newspaper writes the BBC.
This is the conclusion, researchers conducted 37 studies which were attended by about three thousand volunteers. It turns yoga class reduce the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
While there are yoga classes and not included in the list of r ecommended doctors required minimum physical activity, experts believe that yoga can be helpful.
Researchers Medical Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam decided to test the effect of yoga on the cardiovascular system and came to a very unexpected results yoga reduces the risk of obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. But the same effect on the body and have a jogging and active walking and other physical activities.
Professor Miriam Hunink who led the study said, “These results suggest that yoga is potentially very useful, it can be practiced to reduce the risk of heart disease ».
yoga main advantage, compared to traditional physical exertion that it has a calming effect on the body. And heart disease associated just with stress.
Maureen Talbot head nurse of the British Heart Foundation does not exclude the fact that yoga can bring benefits to the human body, but it is necessary to conduct a much broader study the effect of yoga on the human body. So far that has only confirm the fact of a positive impact on the mental state of a person. “The benefits may bring muscular load and work with the breath. It can stimulate the flow of oxygen in the body, which lowers blood pressure ».
Most types of yoga do not give any serious stress on the body. The British Ministry of Health recommends weekly physical activity to 150 minutes of aerobic exercise. Yoga is considered as a system of exercises that strengthen the muscles, it is recommended to deal with it at least 2 times a week.
Yoga – a concept in Indian culture, means the aggregate of various spiritual, mental and physical practices developed in different directions of Buddhism Hinduism, aimed at managing mental and physiological functions of the body in order to achieve individual sublime spiritual and mental state. In a narrower sense, yoga – is one of the six orthodox schools (darshan) of Hindu philosophy.
Main directions of yoga – is Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Hatha Yoga. The ultimate goal of yoga can be quite different from improved physical health and to achieve moksha. Outside India “yoga” is often associated only with Hatha Yoga and its asanas – physical exercise that does not reflect the spiritual and mental aspects of yoga.
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