• What is obesity?
• Obesity and Yoga
• Obesity Symptoms
• Obesity Reasons
• Various ways to get rid of Obesity.

• Excess accumulation of fats
• In today's technology dominated world, physical activity has decreased resulting in accumulation of fats.
• Obesity may become reason for various other diseases.
• Obesity is physical, mental and emotional

• Yoga has considered all aspects of Obesity (physical, emotional and mental)
• Regular practice of Yoga and controlled life style reduces obesity.
• Yoga makes human being agile, efficient and slim. · Yoga is suitable for people in any age group.
• Yoga helps achieve control over mind and behavior (one can easily control food habits and change life style to reduce the obesity.)
• Yoga has different effect on obesity, which is permanent in nature than other techniques for obesity reduction Excess accumulation of fats

• Obesity increases weight, reduces physical movements, and also brings in slowness in emotional and mental activities.
• Food intake increases.
• Obesity can result in frustration.
• Laziness increases, reducing overall efficiency.
• Sometimes obesity can create obstruction to breathing process.
• Obesity may result in heart problems, diabetes or blood pressureYoga has considered all aspects of Obesity (physical, emotional and mental)

• Excess consumption of fats, protein diet
• Eating food, which is sugar rich
• Consuming food all the time, which includes milk, butter, cheese, oily food, non-vegetarian food, tea, coffee, bakery products, rice etc.
• Not eating raw food, fruits, vegetables rich in fibers

• Obesity can be hereditary
• Digestive disorders may result in obesity
• Improper functioning of Endocrine gland system
• Problems in the nervous system
• Imbalance in emotional and mental activities

• Lack of exercise
• No physical movement, driving cars and other vehicles
• Sitting and watching TV, movies, working on computers
• Consuming cold food from fridge all the time

• Regular exercise like running, swimming etc
• Yogasanas like Paschimotannasana, SaralHastaBhujangasana, Sarvangasana, Halasana, Dhanurasana, Veerasana, Trikonasana, ArdhaMatsyendrasana etc
• Along with Yogasanas Sun salutation is very effective for obesity reduction, also Pranayama, cleansing processes like agnisar, uddiyan bandha etc helps

• The lunch and dinner timings should be fixed
• The time difference 2 meals should be 4 hours
• Low fat meal, with fiber rich vegetables and fruits should be taken.
• Reduce fats, excess calories, sweets, milk, butter, cheese etc in meals

• Do not sleep for more than 6 to 7 hours
• Try to stop addictions such as smoking, drinking alcohol or any other drugs.
• Taking help from dietician, one should fix the daily diet schedule.
• If possible take massage and steam bath regularly

Regular practice of Yoga can certainly reduce the obesity, but one needs to learn specific Yogic Techniques, which are more effective for reducing the obesity. We will be studying such techniques in this article, Yoga Vidya Dham has a separate Obesity Reduction Program, which is of 2 months and more than 5 thousand people have benefited by this program.

Before knowing the Yoga let us first understand what obesity means.
First symptom of obesity is increase in weight; body loses its shape, due to accumulation of fats in various parts of body sometimes body balance is affected. The obese person has to spend extra energy for any movement, which results in reduction in overall movements; this reduction in overall activity further increases the weight, also the enthusiasm in any work goes down.

For a regular healthy life the weight has to be in certain limits, there is standard chart, which relates height and weight. If the difference is more than 10 % as mentioned in table then we may say that the person is obese. One can get a brief idea from this chart but not totally correct figures.

This increase in weight is a gradual process. The weight doesn't increase suddenly. We may overlook this, as this increase is not noticeable initially. But beyond certain limits this overweight may become reason for various diseases like Hypertension, Diabetes, Heart problems. So we need to control the weight from the beginning.

For the daily work we spend calories, which we get from the food we eat. But if we take more calories and spend less then the calories are accumulated in the form of fats. Increase in fats reduces body movements, which again increases the weight. So as to reduce the fat one must control the food habits.

Weight can increase because of digestive problems. Useful part of the food is absorbed in blood during the digestion. If there are some problems in this process then it may result in accumulation of fats. If the digestive problem is cured then obesity can reduce.

Endocrine glands control various activities of body. A problem in the functioning of endocrine glands results in various physical problems, obesity can also be because of problems in functioning of endocrine gland system. There is strain on endocrine gland system during childbirth, menopause in case of women. So if proper care is not taken during these transformations, it may result in obesity.

Sometimes because of problems in nervous system, obesity increases and in that case the nervous system problem is to be treated to cure obesity.

Body and mind has complex relations between them, because of mental and emotional imbalance, endocrine gland systems is affected, which may result in obesity.