Diabetes in various forms affects up to 5 percent of the world population with 12 million diabetics in Western Europe alone. Of the different ways in which diabetes presents, non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is probably the most commonly encountered genetic disease. NIDDM or Type II diabetes is multifactorial, depending also on environmental factors including [...]
Yoga, an ancient art that has been practiced for centuries,
became popular in the 1960s with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who
popularized Transcendental meditation (TM) in the 1960’s.
Yoga is the most diversified spiritual practice in the
world. Many scholars believe that yoga dates back over
5,000 years to the beginning of human civilization.
Scholars believe that yoga grew out of Stone [...]
Yoga is a 3,000-year-old, Hindu discipline of mind and body that became known in Western society with the hippie generation of the Sixties and early Seventies. Its image as a mystic practice is disappearing as fast as the stressful aspects of the Eighties are appearing.
As an effective method of stress management, yoga is spreading into [...]
