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Pregnancy can become a craving stage for many women, licensed to eat everything they would not normally eat, because now "they have to eat for two." To this is added the lack of physical activity due to the fear that the baby could suffer some damage.

Yoga improves our mental and physical health. We review the benefits of yoga according to science.

The practice of yoga has not only turned out to be a good way to relieve back pain or even stress.

The practice of yoga has many proven benefits as a tool to control stress, improve memory or give us more energy in our day to day. Now, a new study carried out by a team of researchers from the Netherlands and the United States, have concluded that it also reduces risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The results of the study have been published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

A 20-minute yoga session immediately improves speed and the number of hits on tests that assess working memory. And in addition, this exercise increases the ability of the brain to stay focused, learn new information, retain it and apply it, according to a study just published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health.

Yoga is an essential part of the current LOHAS ("healthy and sustainable lifestyle") current. But is there any truth to the healthy benefits attributed to its practice? The latest scientific studies on the subject indicate that quite a bit.

People who practice meditation are better able to read the facial expressions of others, and show more activity in the regions of the brain related to empathy, according to a study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Taking yoga classes reduces the symptoms of chronic back pain, according to the largest study on the practice of this activity carried out to date in the United States, which is published in the journal 'Archives of Internal Medicine'.