A recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that teens with eating disorders benefited from establishing a yoga practice, reports Time magazine. In the study, teens (mostly girls ages 11-16) with eating disorders showed longer-lasting improvement when they added a yoga practice to their treatment program. “Food preoccupation may be reduced by focusing attention on yoga poses,”
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Yoga Poses for Good Digestion
February 4th, 2009
kate 
One benefit of doing yoga poses everyday is that they help us in the proper functioning of our digestive system. Yoga poses improves our posture which is essential for the good flow of the blood to the organs that are part of the digestive system including our stomach, pancreas and intestines.
Yogis always recommend their students to be mindful of their posture even when they are not practicing yoga because slouching squashes in the organs and it also restricts the amount of oxygen that goes to our internal organs.
One asana pose that you can do to prevent indigestion or to cure indigestion is to kneel and sit on your heel for a few minutes after eating. This frees up our stomach and intestines so that the food that we ate will be digested easily.
For good digestion everyday, you can do sun salutations that twists and stretches our torso and exercises our internal organs.
To do sun salutation, follow these steps:
- Stand straight with arms on the side. Make one straight energy line from your feet to your crown.
- Put your hands in prayer position.
- Breathe in and raise your arms up until they touch each other.
- Breath out, move our hands out going down the floor while bending your body from your hips.
- Breathe in and slowly slide your left foot straight to the back forming a lunge.
- Breathe out and move your right foot back and slowly lie down on your stomach.
- Breath in and lift your head and chest.
- Breathe out stand on your hands and feet straight.
- Breathe in and lunge your other leg.
- Breathe out and put your leg in front while bending from the waist.
- Breath in and raise your arms upwards while your body is going up.
- Breath out and put your hands down and ending with the standing position.
- Put your hands in prayer position.
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