New Delhi: Move over crash diets, tummy tucker belts and fat-loss pills. The latest craze in the battle against the bulge is yoga. Those who are practising yoga are aware that they are not only getting rid of obesity but preventing major diseases like diabetes and coronary heart disease. Yet others are practising this ancient discipline to lose fat and to gain a figure that would cause envy to others. "In 2007, about 4,300 people took training and therapy at the institute. Fifty per cent of them were there due to obesity," Ishwar V Basavaraddi, director of the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, an autonomous body under the Department of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy), said
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