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HEALTH, NUTRITION AND FITNESS IN YOGA
- Yogic knowledge is used for treatment of various diseases and improves quality of life.
- The fundamental purpose of yoga is to foster harmony in body mind and environment.
- To promote health and reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases and to achieve and maintain healthy body weights.
1.1 Meaning and definition of Health
1.2 Dimensions of health
1.3 Aims and objectives
1.4 Importance of health according to Yoga to individual, family, and community
1.5 Health and Yoga
2.1 Concept of Nutrition and Balanced Diet
2.2 Essential Nutrients – Classification, Functions, and Deficiency diseases
2.3 Function of food in the body
2.4 Malnutrition – Meaning, and Types
2.5 Required diet in Yoga practices
3.1 Communicable Disease – Meaning, Mode of Transmission, Control, and Management
3.2 Sign, Symptoms, and Prevention - HIV-AIDS, Hepatitis B, TB, and Malaria
3.3 Nutritional Causes of Diseases
3.4 Diseases of Male Reproductive System
3.5 Diseases of Female Reproductive System
3.6 Aging and Yoga
4.1 Hygiene – Meaning and Importance
4.2 Concept and Importance of Personal, Food, and Water Hygiene
4.3 Posture: Meaning, Characteristics, and Types
4.4 Common postural deficiencies and remedies through Yoga
4.5 Chakras, Vayu and Nadi
5.1 Concept of Physical Fitness
5.2 Factors affecting Physical Fitness
5.3 Components of Physical Fitness
5.4 Warming-up and Cooling down, and its physiological advantages
5.5 Role of Yoga as a way to develop Physical Fitness
5.6 Role and Responsibilities of Yoga Instructor
- The therapeutic value of yoga in neurological disorders. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 15(4), 247..
