How yoga can help control, cure diabetes – Watch!

Regular practice of yoga reduces blood sugar levels, blood pressure and weight.

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: The positive health effects of yoga are bountiful. Yet more and more people are turning to yoga, which includes the practice of specific postures, regulated breathing, and meditation for healthy living.

Aside from physical benefits, yoga can help manage stress and improve your mental well-being. Yoga can also help with diabetes – both as a preventive measure and treatment for type 2 diabetes.

Yoga, when combined with other forms of exercise, helps a lot to control and prevent diabetes. Regular practice of yoga reduces blood sugar levels, blood pressure and body weight. It also reduces the rate of progression to various health complications, resulting from diabetes.

In the following video, famous Yog Guru Dilip Tiwari demonstrates some yoga poses that can help control blood sugar in diabetic patients. The video has been uploaded by careworldtv.com on YouTube.

Video credit: careworldtv/YouTube

Diabetes, sometimes described as a 'lifestyle disease', is becoming an epidemic worldwide.