Two-thirds of Americans can benefit from breathing exercises for weight loss.
While improving physical fitness is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions, people may not be aware of just how bad a public health threat weight problems have become. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that a little more than two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese. Thankfully, people can learn breathing exercises for weight loss and other techniques from yoga, according to one instructor.
Unlike fad diets, which can be difficult and, without a proper balance of nutrients, dangerous, yoga may prove to be a sustainable weight loss regimen. Past studies have shown that these mind-body exercises can actually burn calories, according to the Huffington Post. One of the larger studies included more than 15,000 adults around the age of 55.
"The researchers found that overweight middle-aged participants who practiced yoga at least once a week lost an average of 5 pounds. In contrast, the participants who didn't practice yoga gained 13 pounds," yoga instructor Elaine Gavalas wrote in the news source.
So if you resolved to lose weight in 2012, you may want to check out Dahn Yoga exercises! Not only would you be burning calories, but you'd also be exercising stress relief. And these days, who doesn't need a little R&R?
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