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[28 Sep 2009, 02:00 GMT-6] Dave www
Yoga has more hype than its benefits. Most of the claims are without any study. People see a yoga guru, a person with a long beard and and assume true whatever he says. moreover websites shows skinny girls doing yoga in some sexy pose. This attracts people to do yoga. People should keep in mind that yoga may not be so helpful and some asanas might have some side effects

[28 Sep 2009, 14:51 GMT-6] Tyran www email
Interesting comment. Out of curiosity, I searched Google for "research study yoga" and found 518,000 hits. Sampling the first 40 entries, I found current and past research studies by the following groups:

University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
The Children's Hospital, Aurora, Colorado
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health & University of Toronto
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
University of Virginia Health Systems
University of Glasgow
Department of Medicine, Govt. Vemana Yoga Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
Washington State University Spokane
American College of Physicians
Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center
Baptist Cancer Institute
Ohio State University
National Institutes of Health
University of California, San Francisco
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

(I have intentionally left out any "yoga group" based studies except the Department of Medicine, Govt. Vemana Yoga Research Institute, Hyderabad, India)

Is Yoga a cure all? No, Yoga is not a health system and any health benefits—of which there are many—are merely side-effects. Yoga is a system designed to bring stillness to the mind, allowing the practitioner to see things as they really are rather than as his mind wants them to be.