Scientific study has found that as little as 10 days of yoga practice can lower "bad" fats in the blood, while raising "good" cholesterol (HDL).
Another study looked at individuals after 3 months of yoga and found that the decreases in cholesterol were greater (the yoga had more of an effect) in those individuals whose cholesterol was too high to begin with.
This suggests that yoga was able to help each individual at the level that was needed for that person. Wow!
From Karoun Yoga Newsletter #6 7/13/2009
References:
Khatri D, et al. Effects of yoga and meditation on clinical and biochemical parameters of metabolic syndrome. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 78: e9-e10, 2007.
Bijlani RL, et al. A brief but comprehensive lifestyle education program based on yoga reduces risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 11: 267-274, 2005.
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