How yoga can help to maintain healthy heart? Healthy lifestyle and regular yoga helps in controlling heart disease. Yoga is effective in for life after heart attack or a bypass surgery.
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death globally, thus it has become imperative to educate individuals about healthier lifestyle. Heart diseases and stroke are major public health problems killing several million people worldwide. It is a bigger problem for India because of the fact that younger individuals are getting affected.India is home to the largest youth population, and we must ensure that we pass down healthy lifestyle habits to the next generations.
The increasing burden of cardiac disease in India is worrisome and must be brought under control. Higher rates of indoor and outdoor pollution, combined with a shift towards a sedentary lifestyle and an increase in life threatening habits such as smoking, vaping and other drug abuse, particularly in the urban youth, poses a threat to the heart health of the nation. Unfortunately, incidences of heart attacks have been occurring in very young age groups, even between the ages of 20-30.
Commenting on the importance of the yoga session and ways to maintain a healthy heart, Dr Sreekanth B Shetty, Senior Consultant and Head of Interventional Cardiology, Sakra World Hospital says, “Adopting a proper lifestyle is the good and easiest method to arrest cardiac problems. One must perform regular exercise including yoga for a long way in controlling body weight, sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol. Yoga is very helpful for a heart patient thereby reducing heart disease significantly. Yoga is also proven to be effective in improving a life after a heart attack or a bypass surgery.”
Speaking on the importance of the need of creating awareness on cardiovascular disease, Dr. Deepak Krishnamurthy, Senior Consultant – Interventional Cardiology, Sakra World Hospital said, “According to various corporate wellness surveys, 72% of corporate employees are prone to heart disease due to factors such as high stress levels, lack of physical activity and poor eating habits. Adopting a healthy lifestyle is the key to prevent premature mortality and different heart ailments for working professionals who lead a sedentary lifestyle and work under stressful situations almost on a daily basis”.
To address this alarming issue, awareness program to propagate the message of good health within the professional community is very essential and various studies have proved that yoga sessions on regular basis will be very helpful. But yoga sessions or ‘asanas’ should be performed under the guidance of yoga experts. The experts not only demonstrated series of asanas but they also explained the benefits of yoga to the participants in preventing various cardiovascular problems. It is important to keep heart health in check with regular screenings, to catch early signs of a deteriorating heart so that the damage can be managed or reversed. No matter the age, a healthier diet and active lifestyle can bring incredible health benefits to the body, including the heart.
