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Leisure walks with low cardiovascular exercises work best for weight loss

...ing for exercise, obese people tend to alter their postures and walk with straighter legs. This form of walking tends to conserve energy and hence in the process, people with normal body weights lose more eights in such walks when compared with obese people. Reference: Colorado University, news release, June...

Yoga, ayurveda being documented to stop patent misuse

...perty is fast completing the documentation of yoga postures and techniques as well as formulae in ayurveda, si...ecting from misappropriation. So far, 1,500 yoga postures and thousands of formulae in Indian medicinal systems from ancient books have been identified to doc...

Physician and Patient relationship strained due to non-verbal communications

...ournal of General Internal Medicine that nonverbal postures and behavior exist between physician and patient which is an important cause of a strained doctor and patient relationship. The researchers have found that during doctor visits some patients show signs of distress by looking at the floor instead of...

Blindness cases in China on the rise

...etics, developing reading and writing with correct postures in children and maintenance of adequate distance from televisions and computer screens are some of the suggestions given by Wang. In the mean time, experts in southwest China's Sichuan Province have instructed to improve awareness to help the blind...

Indian radiologist spearheads cure for osteoarthritis sans surgery

...ions in the urban environment, coupled with static postures while watching television or using computers for long hours," Vasishta said. Increasing urbanisation and changing lifestyles due to growing consumerism have shown osteoarthritis becoming an epidemic in the sub-continent, with at least 15 percent of...

Unwind with Yoga

...oday broadly understood as a system of relaxation, postures and breathing. Several forms of yoga have evolved over the centuries. While some focus more on spirituality, some focus on mediation and mastering the conscious mind with some being more physically challenging than others. Several research studies ...

Relax! Straight Talk About Back Problems

... could record their images as they assumed various postures for the purpose of study. The researchers specifically scrutinized the effects of three different postures while sitting down. Sitting hunched forward, sitting upright at 90o angle ,and sitting reclined back...

Public Transport Causing Backaches in Delhi, Mumbai

...ber of muscles that may get pressurised due to bad postures during travel." Jaiswal said the experience of AIIMS was that an increasing number of young professionals were suffering from back problems, "with people from the IT and BPO sectors among the worst hit".He said poor transport, faulty posture and dr...

Simple Tool Developed for Diabetics to Improve Compliance With Medications

...ension after the decision aid was introduced: body postures changed as patient and physician leaned in to focu...nguage was not in synch; but with this tool, their postures changed while they both focused on the decision aid. The quality of the communication, both verbal a...

Yoga Enthusiasts Oppose Patenting Yoga Overseas

...l knowledge, including Ayurvedic remedies and yoga postures to protect them from being pirated and copyrighted by foreigners. The data, which will be translated from ancient Sanskrit and Tamil texts, will be stored digitally and be available in five international languages....

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