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Nutrition and Lifestyle News: Try Yoga to Avoid Middle-Aged Weight Gain

Yoga generally doesn’t burn a lot of calories, and it doesn’t qualify as aerobic

exercise, but a new study suggests that 30 minutes of yoga once a week may help

prevent middle-aged spread. The study, conducted at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer

Research Center in Seattle and published in the July/August 2005 issue of

Alternative Therapies found that people who were overweight at age 45 and

practiced yoga for four or more years lost an average of five pounds. Those

people who didn’t practice yoga gained 13 pounds during the same four years. The

findings come from data on more than 15,000 men and women between the ages of 53

and 57 who reported their weight at age 45 and their current weight. The

researchers speculated that the reason for the weight loss among the yoga

practitioners was due to following a healthier lifestyle than the

non-practitioners. The yoga group reported other types of exercise in addition

to yoga and took in 11 percent fewer calories from fat and 45 percent more

calories from fruits and vegetables. Another possibility: yoga practitioners

report feeling more connected to their bodies, which may translate into eating

less and being more aware of when they’ve had enough food.

Source: New York Times, Aug. 2, 2005

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