Medical study: Efficacy of yoga in pregnant women with abnormal Doppler study of umbilical and uterine arteries. <-- linkThat is a mouthful! Plain English: This is a study about the effects of yoga preformed by the expecting mother on her soon to be newborn.
"In babies the birth-weight is significantly higher (P < 0.018) in the Yoga group (2.78 +/- 0.52 kg), compared to the control group (2.55 +/- 0.52 kg). Occurrence of complications of pregnancy (pregnancy-induced hypertension, intrauterine growth retardation, pre-term delivery) shows lower trends in yoga group"
Another interesting fact about this study is that the control, the non-yoga group, walked twice a day for a half hour.
(I think I would be more inclined to do yoga, or any exercise for that matter, if I had a cute outfit to do it in! I am sure there has to be a medical study to support this!)
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