Yoga can help prevent cardiovascular diseases that have significantly gone up due to poor lifestyle choices, lack of exercise, wrong diet and increased stress, and may develop into an epidemic in India in the coming decade, according to eminent experts.
India will replace all western nations to be the country with the largest number of heart diseases in the coming decade, the American Academy of Yoga and Meditation (AAYM) has warned.
AAYM is a non-profit organisation of physicians, scientists, and other academicians who hold regular teaching lessons for physicians to understand and use yoga in clinical practice.
With an epidemic of diabetes mellitus and hypertension, India is slated to be the world’s cardiovascular disease capital, said the American academy which along with its public platform called the Ganges Mississippi dialogue, is holding an online symposium to highlight how yoga can be used to prevent cardiovascular diseases.
These diseases, including heart attack, stroke, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation, to name a few, can be either prevented or alleviated by yoga, a statement said.
This programme, held on World Heart Day on September 29, will be broadcast in the US and internationally to raise awareness on October 3, it said.
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