The Secrets of Yoga

Heyya my friends..
Ok, this is another tips of program and exercise for you who wants to get a normal weight.
And this time I will write about ‘YOGA’.

For you who doesn’t know what yoga is. I’ll try to explain for you.

Well, yoga is one of the most ancient cultural heritage of India. The word yoga in Sanskrit means "to unite", and so yoga can be said to connote a unitive discipline. In this sense it is an exercise in moral and mental cultivation that generates good health (arogya), contributes to longevity (chirayu), and the total intrinsic discipline culminates into positive and perennial happiness and peace.

Therefore, yoga is the said to be indispensable of the ultimate accomplishment in life. It is a science that affects not only the conscious self but the subconscious as well. It is a practical physiological training (kriya yoga), which if practiced can exalt man to the 'supra mundane level'.

Yoga is for everyone, regardless of age, size, shape, or faith. It is non-competitive, self-paced, and sensitive to your body's needs. It gently nurtures your body through a series of physical postures, or asanas, to stretch and tone the muscles, release pressure in the joints, and align and strengthen the spine. Yoga also uses breathing exercises, or pranayamas, to calm and relax the mind bringing about a greater awareness of your body.

Through this process of physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditation, you will find your body and mind letting go of stress and negativity. As a result, a feeling of peace and harmony will arise within you. It is within that moment, that you will find greater awareness and connectivity to your true essence.

And this is why I said yoga will help you to gain your ideal size. Why? Because when you doing yoga, it will teach you how to keep your life in balance.

The short answer is that yoga makes you feel better. Practicing the postures, breathing exercises and meditation makes you healthier in body, mind and spirit. Yoga lets you tune in, chill out, shape up all at the same time.

Yoga is good for what ails you. Specifically, research shows that yoga helps manage or control anxiety, arthritis, asthma, back pain, blood pressure, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, headaches, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, stress and other conditions and diseases.

Another yoga's benefits is:
• Improves muscle tone, flexibility, strength and stamina
• Reduces stress and tension
• Boosts self esteem
• Improves concentration and creativity
• Lowers fat
• Improves circulation
• Stimulates the immune system
• Creates sense of well being and calm.

Yoga improves posture, increases the intake of oxygen, and enhances the functioning of the respiratory, digestive, endocrine, reproductive, and elimination systems. Its effects on the emotions are equally beneficial: calming the mind, attuning us to the environment, and diminishing insomnia caused by mental restlessness.

Yoga is highly recommended for people in competitive, stressful working environments, for those who suffer from headaches, back and shoulder aches, allergies, and asthma; and for anyone over the age of 40 (although the younger you start, the better). Yoga also works to unite the split between the mind and the body.

The regular practice of yoga helps us to accept whatever physical or mental conditions we might be suffering from by increasing our immediate sense of well being, concentration, and calm. Much healing can be done, but it takes practice and consistency.

Well enough the explanation from me about yoga, I don't want to make you bored first before find out the real benefits of yoga. :D

So now I will give you some yoga's postures. And let's start by describing some of the yoga stretches that you can do:

Torso Stretch

Start by lying on your stomach. Your hands should be on the floor, flat. While in this position, make sure your hands are close to your chest. Using the tops of both feet, proceed to move the upper body part upward. Make sure your shins are on the floor as you're doing this. As you press your hands into the floor, your arms should be straight. Take a breath and hold it in for 40 seconds.

Yoga Crunch

Start by lying on your back. Pull your knees to your chest area. Your hands should be placed over your head. Make sure your hands are on the floor behind you. As you raise your legs, flex your feet upward toward the ceiling. As you bring your legs down, use your abdominal muscles to do it. When your back starts to arch, stop. Bring your legs back to your chest area. Do the entire process over. You can start out slow, but the goal is to get up to at least 10 repetitions.

There are some suggestions that you should take into consideration:

When you're doing these stretching exercises, it's important to go slow and control your movements. This will help your abdominal muscles a lot. In yoga, it's important to breathe properly. When you inhale and exhale, it helps your muscles and helps you to further your stretches. It's also important to have a connection, with your mind, body and soul.

The more you do these stretches, the better you will feel. You will start to see a change in your body, including flat abs and toned body.

For the next, I will explain more about another yoga's position include the pictures of the postures. So it'll make you to working on it. And I'll try my best to write it in more simple explanation.

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Obesity

Obesity and Its Risks For Your Health

Obesity is a condition that afflicts people. It leads to many other health conditions that can be debilitating or deadly. In other words, the health problems associated with obesity are numerous and nothing to sneeze at. Take this into consideration. Someone who is overweight by 40% is two times more likely to die than someone who is of an average weight. Because obesity is known to increase the risk for heart disease, diabetes, and certain types of cancer.

The experts say that anyone overweight by 20% of their healthy bodyweight should lose some weight. If they don't then there are some risk factors to consider:

• Heart disease and stroke. Both of these can be deadly and lead to heart attack or a stroke that can leave a person in a vegetative state.
• High blood pressure, which can also lead to stroke and other health problems. One day society will wake up and understand that having the proper levels of proper blood pressure and cholesterol because you are healthy is far different than drugging your body so numbers look better on paper.
• Diabetes, which can lead to other health issues. Some people have lost legs, feet, and other extremities because of diabetes.
• Different forms of cancer can come about. There is not one known form of cancer that is specific to obese individuals because an obese individual becomes more susceptible to any form of cancer.
• Gallbladder disease, gall stones, and kidney stones. These are painful conditions that can lead to other problems.
• Gout, which is a painful condition that no one really wants.
• Osteoarthritis can restrict a person's movement even more than they are already restricted being obese. It is also very painful and debilitating.
• Breathing issues such as sleep apnea. A person with sleep apnea stops breathing for short periods in their sleep. Some have been found to stop breathing completely.
• Blood clots are common in those who are obese. These blood clots form in the legs. They can eventually move to other places of the body such as the lungs, which results in a pulmonary embolism.
• Another sock news about obesity’s risk, it increases the risk someone will develop Alzheimer's, which is a condition that no one wants to ever have to deal with.

A new study shows that obese individuals have a 40% increased risk for dementia and an 80% increased risk for Alzheimer's. Significant mental decline affects 10% of the elderly population and rates of Alzheimer's are up 20% - consistent with the increase in obesity. There is no reason this has to happen.

And regardless of the drugs, obesity itself accelerates cognitive decline for a number of reasons:

1) Leptin does not enter the brain readily, and leptin acts as a primary antioxidant in the brain protecting against excitotoxic damage.
2) The poor energy level associated with obesity means there is less overall energy (ATP) and your brain runs on ATP.
3) The energy required to form acetylcholine for memory is lacking.
4) Fluctuating blood sugar levels, especially power outages in the afternoon, cause low-energy brain states that are highly stressful.
5) The inflammation coming from extra pounds of fat is quite stressful to your nervous system.
6) Due to all these factors overweight people have less tolerance for stress in general, meaning accelerated nervous system wear and tear from day to day demands and pressures.

Living a long life with the quality of your health requires that you maintain optimal body weight. Well, if you are lucky enough to escape from all those problems and obesity’s risks that I did mention above, then you may have to struggle with a rapidly declining brain.

Isn't it a lot easier to just eat well, be healthy, and stay fit? Cause I’m sure you don’t want to wake up in the morning and find out yourself trap and being suffer with all this fat around which could kill you anytime without giving you any warning (well im not trying to scare you, but this is the facts about obesity).

So, just care yourself and try to stay in healthy lifestyle and enjoy the quality of this life. :)

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Coffee and Weight Loss

I think it’s not a new information anymore that “coffee could help out those who wants to reduce their weight”, isn’t it?
I found this article in one website, and I hope this could help you to figure out what’s the facts about coffee and its issue for weight loss program.

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Coffee For Weight Loss - Does It Work?

Water Weight or Fat Loss?
For one thing, we are only talking about a very modest difference in weight of one pound. For another thing, coffee acts as a diuretic, which means a substance which causes you to pass more urine. That means that very likely, the weight loss noted in the study and then some is due to decreased water weight, not fat.
In fact, coffee might very well cause you to put on weight, particularly abdominal fat, the kind which is associated with increased risk for diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.

Coffee and Insulin
Drinking coffee causes the pancreas to produce more insulin, the hormone which causes excess carbohydrates to be stored as fat.
In a double blind study done at Duke University, diabetics who took capsules containing caffeine saw their average daily sugar levels in the blood go up by 8 per cent. The authors of the study theorized that caffeine interferes with the process that moves glucose from the blood and into muscle and other cells in the body where it is used for fuel. The caffeine in coffee might also trigger the release of adrenaline, which is the 'fight or flight' hormone that is known to boost sugar levels.
That's not all. Because drinking coffee causes insulin spikes, the extra insulin eventually converts the sugar in the blood to either fat or energy, resulting in low blood sugar. When people have low blood sugar, they feel the need to eat substances that will increase their blood sugar levels, such as refined carbohydrates, coffee, or both. Of course, this leads to weight gain, not weight loss.

Coffee, Cortisol and Lactate
Drinking coffee causes the body to secrete cortisol and increases the production of lactate.
Cortisol is another hormone that's part of the fight or flight response. Animal and human studies have shown that high levels of cortisol are associated with cravings for sugar and fat, increased appetite, and weight gain, rather than weight loss.
Lactate, on the other hand, is known to increase anxiety, which in turn causes the body to secrete still more cortisol. In a study performed at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, 10 healthy volunteers were injected with 3, 5, or 7 mg of caffeine. Researchers found that there were dose-related increases in ratings of anxiety and blood levels of cortisol and lactate. In one case, a volunteer had a full blown panic attack.

Article Source

Michael Kydonieus the author of this article is a weight loss expert and author of "Why Can't I Lose Weight? The Metabolic Syndrome Diet." Click Here to visit his website.

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So the conclusion is, in this article, we could see the overall health risks of coffee, which include kidney stones, gout, exhausted adrenal glands, decreased immune response, arthritis, osteoporosis, acid reflux, insomnia, migraines, heart disease, diabetes, and so on.
The bottom line is, if you're serious about healthy weight loss, there are better choices for weight management aids than coffee.

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