SEATTLE, Aug 14, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Regular yoga practice may help
prevent middle-age spread in normal-weight people and overweight people may drop
a few pounds, U.S. researchers said.
Alan Kristal and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in
Seattle said in an earlier study, the researchers learned middle-age people who
practice yoga gained less weight over a 10-year period than those who did not --
independent of physical activity and dietary patterns.
The follow-up study, published in the Journal of the American Dietetic
Association, found people who ate mindfully -- those were aware of why they ate
and stopped eating when full -- weighed less than those who ate mindlessly --
who ate when not hungry or in response to anxiety or depression.
The study also found a strong association between yoga practice and mindful
eating but found no association between other types of physical activity, such
as walking or running and mindful eating.
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