Excerising the Trunk

Author(s): Sitadevi Yogendra
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accumulation of fat also to psychological factors. In the second place apart from the subnormal functioning of certain endotcrine glands which apply to limited cases only, unhygienic overweight is, more often than not, due physiologically to overnutrition, to under oxidation or to a combination of both acting together. The unused surplus is then stored up as deposits of fat in the tissues least disturbed by muscular action. This excess when limited to omentum and mesentery is bardly noticeable, but, when the local deposits are made in the region of the abdominal walls and the hips, they not only present an ugly appearance but also offer great difficulty in their removal. Further, while most people acquire fat because of such faulty habits of living as habitual over-eating and lack of exercise, the most common cause, however, may be traced to improper elimination. Especially in the case of women, constipation is usually the predisposing factor, even though there are many other minor functional disturbances which may naturally lead to overweight. Here again, women are constitutionally a little more subject to the curse of constipation than men because of the anatomicophysiological differences of the pelivic floor besides keen sensitiveness to psychological affects. If you are a victim of sedentary habit or occuption, drugging, irregularity in response to calls of Nature, displacement, buldge or crowding of the correct standing and sitting habits, replace sittIng hy strolling and take to short walks once or twice a day. Even with these simple formulas, when yoga physical education is supplemented, to yoga psychosomatic at the clinical level, the results obtained have been remarkable.
Keeping in mind the fact that the physical training and the need of the fair sex, therefore, consist also, besides other things, in taking care of her abdominal and pelvic viscera, the value of certain yoga postures for exercising the trunk as an essential course of physical training for women becomes self-evident. The clinical experience of half a century at the Institute indicates that the best way to fight fat is first to fight constipation itself by gradually stopping the use of laxatives and substituting the same by suitable yoga physical exercises which take good care of the mid-trunk. The specific advantages of the yoga postureexercises which invigorate the muscles and walls of the abdomen, as an unfailing treatment of chronic functional constipation, have in recent years been fully acknowledged by many scientists.
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