There's great news for people taking Atlanta yoga classes!
There's great news for people taking Atlanta yoga classes! Given that yoga instruction is good for the mind, body and soul, researchers have performed a number of scientific investigations in Georgia's capital, establishing that yoga can contribute to heart health and a positive body image.
One such study, published in the journal Circulation, found that practicing yoga for as few as eight weeks may help reduce the symptoms associated with heart failure.
Researchers from Georgia State University (GSU) and the Emory University School of Medicine – both of which are based in Atlanta – came to this conclusion after giving either yoga-based treatments or traditional medical therapy to patients with heart failure.
This condition has a number of causes, including weakened cardiac muscles, poor vascular health, coronary artery disease, hypertension and diabetes.
In essence, heart failure consists primarily of the gradual inability of the heart to pump blood through the body, as the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) defines it.
The Georgia group found that people who engaged in yoga and meditation for eight weeks reduced their heart failure-related inflammation, increased their exercise tolerance and improve their overall quality of life.
This news may cheer up the more than 5.7 million Americans believed by the NHLBI to have cardiac failure.
Of course, yoga is also good for the mind, in that it aids in reducing stress and managing personal change. Consider a study conducted by scientists at GSU to determine whether yoga helps children improve their self-image.
The results appeared in the Journal of Clinical Child Psychology. Researchers asked a dozen third-graders to engage in several weeks of mindfulness exercises as a way to cope with poor physical coordination and negative body image.
The team found that children who engaged in yoga displayed improved self-image after the awareness-training sessions.
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