Yoga for Weight Loss

Yoga for Weight Loss

Yoga for Weight Loss

Yoga for Weight Loss

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Overview

An instructive, inspiring guide to using yoga as an effective and approachable tool to lose weight and achieve a healthier lifestyle.

More than your average exercise regimen, yoga has helped enthusiasts discover personal equilibrium and maintain it for a lifetime. In Yoga for Weight Loss, renowned physician and longtime yoga practitioner Loren Fishman demystifies the scientific link between yoga and weight control, outlining its medical, physiological, biological, and spiritual impact.

“To many of his patients [Dr. Fishman] is a miracle worker” (Jane E. Brody, New York Times), and in Yoga for Weight Loss he brings his expertise to the page to show how simple yoga postures, explained and illustrated here, can work inside the body on a cellular level. These accessible poses, adjustable to different skill levels and medical conditions, can curtail appetite while stimulating a greater utilization of calories that may help practitioners lose as much as two to three pounds per month. Yoga for Weight Loss is an indispensable resource for those seeking a practical and holistic weight loss journey.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393354904
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 12/29/2020
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 1,087,654
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Loren Fishman, MD, is a professor at Columbia Medical School and the medical director of Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The author of five books on the medical potential of yoga, he lives in New York City.

Carol Ardman has coauthored three previous books with Dr. Fishman. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Yogic Approach 1

Chapter 1 Tangible and Intangible Yoga Influences 5

Chapter 2 Benefits for Conditions Related to Overweight 9

Chapter 3 Do You Really Need to Lose Weight? 15

Chapter 4 Real People Get Thinner 27

Chapter 5 How Yoga Works Deep Inside Your Body 33

Chapter 6 Motivation, Medical Risks, Drugs, and Diets 45

Chapter 7 Doing the Yoga 60

Chapter 8 Staying Safe to Gain the Benefits 96

Chapter 9 How to Design and Use Pose Sequences 102

Chapter 10 From the Practical to the Sublime 128

Acknowledgments 139

Alphabetical List of Poses 141

Poses by Chapter 143

Glossary 145

Notes 149

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