Sunday, September 28, 2008

Yoga for Diabetes

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Diabetes is a cruel disease most patients crave food but have to limit their intake to avoid sugar fluctuations. Type I Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus occurs when the pancreas is producing little or no insulin. And I’m sorry to say that there no cure for diabetes. But you can definitely control it and here’s how.

Yoga aims to control your raging diabetes and obesity by gentle lifestyle changes, meditation, and asanas. This will balance your endocrine system by nudging the pancreas into producing more insulin, and promoting a large amount of weight loss.

As with all types of Alternative medicine, Yoga aims manage to the mind, body, and spirit and thus controls disease. S.A.A. Ramaiah’s study carried out in Washington, D.C. compared the effects of ordinary exercise to different types of yoga asanas. It was decided that the direct prodding of the pancreas by the different asanas revived its power to make insulin.

Although these are just a few of the asanas which are effective in controlling diabetes, it always good to get treatment under a trained professional,

1. Dhanurasana (Bow pose, Vilasana),

2. Paschimottanasana (Sitting crane, Amarntha kokkuasana),

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