Yoga Practice for Middle-Aged People

Recently, many journals on yoga practice and health benefits have surfaced. Numerous studies have been conducted relating yoga to health. Recent studies show that if you practice yoga, it will help prevent some major problems associated with people in their middle ages. Now that‘s a good deal!

Regular sessions of yoga will help diminish those problem areas that we are all too familiar with.

Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center conducted a study that showed 30 minutes of consistent yoga practice done over a period of four years led to weight loss for overweight middle-aged people.

Researchers had looked into the data accumulated from 10,000 men and women in the age group of 45 and 55 years. Studies concluded that individuals of a normal weight who had daily yoga practice sessions gained 3 pounds less than those individuals who did not have regular yoga sessions. The effect of yoga was the most on obese people of this age group. In the span of ten years, obese people of the age group had lost about 10 pounds more than the people of the same age group who did not schedule regular yoga practice time.

There are many myths that center around weight loss combined with a hard exercise program, however the people who attended yoga practice did not do that kind of yoga at all. Researches believe that through the study of yoga, individuals learn to become conscious of their bodies, which results to the weight loss.