Better food habits can help you be healthier. Yoga is the perfect
tool for anyone wishing to make permanent changes in their life whether it be losing weight, leaving a destructive relationship
or overcoming the toxic affects of growing up in a dysfunctional family. Yoga is the ideal method for achieving personal transformation.
As far as permanent weight loss is concerned, the yoga practice does not specifically emphasize burning calories, though you
will burn calories while practicing yoga. If you have a steady practice, this can be a beneficial side affect although it
is not the main focus of the practice. Yoga focuses on bringing the body and mind into a state of harmony so that self knowledge
is possible.The reason most weight loss programs ultimately fail is because they do not address the roots of the problem.
In most cases when someone gains weight this is a result of over eating. But what causes us to over eat? Most people are not
born as over eaters. The habit of over eating usually develops as a result of some emotional imbalance that slowly develops
over time. As a result we develop unhealthy eating habits including over eating.Simply going on a diet or joining a health
club is not going to address that question. You may lose significant weight by taking such actions but inevitably the weight
will return unless you begin to address the root causes of over eating (the emotional imbalance that caused the problem in
the first place.) Once we understand what causes our problem, we can then choose to change our behavior. Change then becomes
a conscious choice and we become the masters of our own fate rather than always feeling like the victim.Yoga teaches us to
live mindfully and to use conscious intention to achieve our goals. Therefore it is the perfect vehicle for personal growth
of any kind including changing our behavior in any situation. Through the yoga practice we learn to love and respect our bodies
and to nurture our souls in very healthy ways. The result is personal transformation and a quality of life second to none.
Obesity Reasons-
• Physical inactivity
(lack of proper exercise)
• Eating Habits –
o Eating in between meals
o Preference to sweets, refined
food, fats, preserved food
o Composition & periodicity of meals
• Psychological Factors
o Emotional disturbances
o
Depression
and anxiety
o Frustration and loneliness
• Endocrine glands problems
• Familial tendency
• Males
are at high risk during age 29 to 35 and females are at risk during the age 45 to 49
• The risk increases with age.
