Study: Yoga helps to reduce the risk of heart disease – BBC Russian

• December 16, 2014

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Yoga can be a good way to prevent heart disease, especially in the lack of opportunities for more active physical culture and sports show held Dutch research.

This conclusion was based on the medical treatment of the results of 37 studies that involved nearly three thousand people. They show that yoga reduces the risk of heart disease such as high blood pressure or cholesterol levels.

Yoga classes are not included in the recommended list of doctors minimal physical activity that we need every week.

However, experts believe that yoga can be helpful.

Yoga – an ancient system of exercises aimed at strengthening the power, flexibility, and improved breathing, which contribute to physical and mental health.

Yoga in recent years become increasingly widespread popularity

There are many types of yoga – from Hatha Yoga for beginners to the Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga for people who are more physically developed. But most of these species do not represent the amount of exercise, equivalent to 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise, which the British Ministry of Health recommends that as a weekly wage.

Yoga is considered to be a system of exercise strengthens the muscles. Those recommendations Ministry of Health said that this kind of exercise needs to be addressed at least twice a week.

Yoga and Stress

Professor Miriam Hunink Medical Center University Erasmus decided to check out whether any influence yoga health of the cardiovascular system.

Doctors believe that stress relief – one of the benefits of yoga

In comparison with the other exercises in yoga have a distinct advantage. According to tell about these studies, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, noted that yoga reduces the risk of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels.

At the same time, to maintain a healthy heart activity yoga was not worse and not better, than other forms of exercise, such as jogging or walking active.

“These results suggest that yoga potentially very useful, it can be practiced to reduce the risk of heart disease,” – says Professor Hunink.

It is not clear why yoga is beneficial, but experts believe that the reason for its calming effect. It is known that heart disease and high blood pressure associated with stress.

“The benefits may bring muscular load and work with the breath. It can stimulate the flow of oxygen into the body, which reduces blood pressure,” – said the head nurse British Heart Foundation Maureen Talbot.

However, in her opinion, the need for larger studies to better understand the impact of yoga on the body. At the same time, how to measure Maureen Talbot, the benefits of yoga for mental health is well known and confirmed.