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Saturday, November 13, 2010

India's Capital Delhi has Highest number of Obese Children

A study was recently consucted by the Diabetes Foundation of India and the National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (N-DOC)on school going children, which reveals that in the last three years, the obesity among children has increased from 9.8 percent to 11.7 percent. In private school, the obesity has risen from 11.6 percent to 17 percent.

The survey carried out in seven indian cities cvering government and private school children indicates thatin Delhi, the obesity of private school children has risen to 32.6 percent, which is the highest among the children covered.

The study focus on the health affests of the obesity and estimates that around 70 percent of the children will remain obese till they are adults and further around 20 percent of the children may develop dibetes as early as they reaches thirtees. Researchers argue that the obesity has shot up for the main reason of the poor food habits including junk food, lack of exercise etc.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Yoga and fast weight loss

Yoga in the form of asana was practiced long back in India by Yoga gurus and many of their teaching are being practiced by large number of people for achieving healthy and fit life. In today’s life people have many bad food habits and, when everyone consumes lots of oily, spicy food, the chances of putting on weight are much higher and the following simple tip of yoga can really help you in achieving your desired weight loss much fast.

Kapal Bhati is a type of pranayama and if it is done correctly and if you start and practice you up to 5 minute per day, you can achieve weight loss much fast. People having high blood pressure, diabetes, kdney problems, heart problems are not advised to practice Kapal bhati.

Practicing Kapal Bhati is very simple. Sit straight and force out air from your nose as speedily as you can allowing your abdomen muscles to contract. Now you will see sharp contraction in your abdomen muscles after forcing air, now inhale air easily. Repeat the above step 5 times. Take rest and repeat one more cycle. Continue it daily and start increasing your duration slowly so that you can practice it for 5 minutes a day. That’s it. It will not only help in reducing your weight loss fat, but you will achieve overall good health and fitness.