HEALTHY AND FITNESS

  Yoga Poses To Lower High Blood Pressure At least one person in your life, a family member, someone you work with, or a good friend is likely to have high blood pressure and take one or more pills every day to bring it under control.

Best Yoga Poses for Weight Loss Our eating habits, hectic schedules, workload, and daily lifestyle have taken a toll on our health due to which we tend to gain weight faster. Obesity makes life lazy and sedentary. The body becomes weak and it decreases the possibilities of a longer life span. A common ailment, bones of buttocks, knees, and spinal column become brittle. It may have an adverse effect on health, leading to many health problems such as cardiovascular disease ,  diabetes , sleep apnea , certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis . Overweight people have an increased risk of high blood pressure , heart disease, and other illnesses. Losing weight reduces risk. However, losing weight is more easily said than done. This is surely a universal truth. This is where ancient holistic fitness therapies of yoga and pranayama come for aid. However, practicing yoga on a daily basis has certainly helped many people lose weight. The fact that yoga brings mind, body, and s...

Back pain   can be caused by several day to day activities and habits. One of the most common reasons would certainly include sitting all day long with minimal physical activity. Wrong sitting posture, excessive driving, wrong sleeping posture or just an old injury resurfacing can be few factors contributing to that nagging back pain. In some cases, skeletal imbalance or morbid obesity are also to blame. The muscles between shoulder blades, the Rhomboid and Trapezius muscles, work hard to keep the head straight in line with the center of gravity.  When these muscles are stressed, we need to soothe them. If they're overworked, it makes lead to knots that are caused by the lactic acid deposit and they need to be  massaged to release tension . Similarly, when you use one of your arms more often than the other to do day to day chores, your body weight tends to shift and it becomes less flexible. Such skeletal imbalances can affect your spine muscles and nerves leading ...

In today's world stress is a part of life. How to relieve stress and anxiety? What are the causes and symptoms of stress? Is there a simple way to get rid of stress, without having to pop pills? That's right, you are asking all the right questions and we have the answers to all your questions! CAUSES OF STRESS:  Let's first talk about a few causes and symptoms of stress - while causes could be anything from financial trouble to pressure at work to health problems, the symptoms may be the inability to sleep, poor performance at work, addictions to smoke and drink, excessive eating and lack of energy. And does this affect your body? Yes, it does! Stress affects your heart , immune system , skin, lungs, digestive tract and most importantly your brain. ROLE OF YOGA IN STRESS MANAGEMENT AND RELAXATION Well, now that you know the causes as well as symptoms of stress, what can we do about it? Practicing yoga is one guaranteed way of relieving stress.   Maintaining ...