Yoga has been found to lower fasting blood sugar in people with diabetes, as well as levels of hemoglobin A1c, a measure of longer-term control of blood sugar. The effect may in part be due to lowering cortisol and adrenaline levels. Higher blood sugar levels increase the risk of such common diabetic complications as heart attacks, kidney failure, and blindness. Yoga may also help lower high blood sugar levels via weight loss and appears to improve sensitivity to the effects of insulin. (source: Timothy McCall, M.D.)
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Reading Room
- Autobiography of a Yogi
- Bikram Yoga, Bikram Choudhury's Book
- Eat for Health by Dr. Joel Fuhrman
- Foundation
- Hatha Yoga: The Hidden Language, Symbols, Secrets & Metaphors
- Heaven's Banquet by Miriam Hospodar
- How it all Vegan
- Intuition, Knowing Beyond Logic by Osho
- Live in a Better Way by Dalai Lama
- Living, Loving & Learning by Leo Buscaglia
- The Deeper Dimension of Yoga by George Feuerstein
- The Heart of Yoga by T.K.V. Desikarchar
- The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen
- The Reflective Life by Ken Gire
- The Sacred Yes
- The Untethered Soul
- The Way We're Working Isn't Working by Tony Schwartz
- Yoga & Ayurveda, Self-Healing & Self-Realization by David Frawley
- Yoga Gems by Georg Feuerstein
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- American Meat
- Awake: The Life of Yoganada
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- Dr. Joe Dispenza
- Fast Food Nation
- Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead
- Food Fight
- Food Inc.
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- Fresh
- Get Vegucated
- Griefwalker
- Hungry For Change – A Food Matters Film
- Keepers of the Light
- King Korn
- Krishnamacharya: His Legacy and Teaching
- Mad City Chickens
- Ram Das Fierce Grace
- Raw Faith
- Spiritual Revolution
- Super Size Me
- The Dhamma Brothers
- The Secret
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