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Yoga Boosts Hearts, Shrinks Waistlines T


wo scientific reviews of human clinical research have found that hatha yoga significantly reduces heart disease risk factors. Researchers from Germany’s University of Duis- burg-Essen reviewed 44 studies involving more than 3,000 people. Overall, the studies found that hatha yoga significantly reduced both systolic and diastolic


blood pressure. Yoga participants also showed lower respiratory and heartbeat rates, significantly reduced triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or bad cholesterol, and increased high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or good cholesterol. Several important diabetes risk markers decreased among the yoga participants; they also realized smaller waistlines. Similar results were reached by scientists from the United Kingdom’s Warwick


Medical School. In analyzing 11 studies involving 800 people, they found that regular yoga exercise both reduced diastolic blood pressure and triglycerides and increased beneficial HDL cholesterol levels.


Licorice Root Reduces Dangerous Fat A


new study published in the journal Nutrafoods has confirmed that licorice extract helps reduce


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visceral fat in obese adults. The study tested 60 men and 60 women that were clinically obese with body mass index (BMI) scores of over 30. For three months, they were given either a placebo pill or 300 milligrams per day of licorice root extract. Then they were tested for visceral fat using CT scans and measured for waist cir- cumference, waist-to-hip measurements and BMI scores. The licorice extract group had significantly fewer visceral fat cells, lower BMI scores and reduced waist cir- cumference compared with the placebo group. Previous research with the extract also showed similar weight-loss effects among human subjects.


REVEALS SLEEP DISORDERS T


TONGUE DIAGNOSIS


raditional medicines have long utilized tongue analysis to diagnose various disorders. Now, a recent study from the Republic of Korea’s Institute of Oriental Medicine sup- ports the accuracy of this ancient health practice in the area of sleep dysfunction. The researchers studied two separate groups of 153


people and 454 elderly people; in both, the color of their tongues was analyzed and compared with cases of sleep disorders within each group. Those experi- encing sleep dysfunctions had a paler tongue color compared with those in the healthy group; they also had more thickly coated tongues.


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