{"id":12829,"date":"2009-10-08T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=12829"},"modified":"2009-10-07T14:06:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T19:06:33","slug":"yoga-provides-relief-to-breast-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/yoga-provides-relief-to-breast-cancer-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Provides Relief to Breast Cancer Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"yoga\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/yoga-provides-relief-to-breast-cancer-patients\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12880\" title=\"yoga\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/yoga.jpg\" alt=\"yoga\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a>Anyone who has taken a yoga class understands the peace of mind that follows as you roll up your mat and float out of class. And despite the mental <a title=\"treating trauma with yoga\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/treating-trauma-with-yoga\/\" target=\"_self\">anguish<\/a> felt by women who have been diagnosed with <a title=\"breast cancer prevention\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/topics\/breast-cancer-prevention\/\" target=\"_self\">breast cancer<\/a>, yoga&#8217;s ability to lift the spirits is not at all lost on the women who are grappling with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"yoga popularity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/top-five-reasons-why-americans-practice-yoga\/\" target=\"_self\">Yoga popularity<\/a> and breast cancer awareness have grown exponentially in the past years. And for good reason. More and more medical professionals are looking at mind-body techniques like yoga to improve <a title=\"yoga benefits breast cancer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/yoga-eases-pain-of-breast-cancer\/\" target=\"_self\">quality of life<\/a> factors, reduce\u00a0 illness-related stress and possibly\u00a0affect treatment outcomes in individuals suffering from a chronic or acute health\u00a0condition.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A 2026 study published in the journal <em>Psycho-Oncology<\/em> showed that when women with breast\u00a0cancer\u00a0engaged in 75 minutes of restorative yoga\u00a0postures over a ten-week period, they displayed\u00a0less depressive symptoms and a greater improvement\u00a0in mood than\u00a0those women\u00a0who did not participate in the yoga classes.<\/p>\n<p>Other studies have shown a similar trend, namely that when <a title=\"yoga\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/topics\/yoga\/\" target=\"_self\">yoga<\/a> is part of a woman&#8217;s cancer\u00a0treatment plan, their quality of life increases and their treatment-related symptoms like anxiety, depression and lethargy are also reduced. Medical professionals who recognize how mentally, physically and emotionally taxing a\u00a0breast cancer diagnosis and consequent\u00a0treatments can be are calling these handful of studies very significant for women and their cancer experience.<\/p>\n<p>If you or a\u00a0friend\u00a0are interested in taking a yoga class as part of your breast cancer treatment, talk with your doctor first and then research yoga teachers and classes in your area that specialize in restorative yoga or illness-related yoga.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">October is Breast Cancer Awarness Month. Join our <a title=\"breast cancer awareness\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/blogs-against-breast-cancer-2009\/\" target=\"_self\">Blogs Against Breast Cancer<\/a>!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has taken a yoga class understands the peace of mind that follows as you roll up your mat and float out of class. And despite the mental anguish felt by women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/yoga-provides-relief-to-breast-cancer-patients\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[47,31,2499,30],"class_list":["post-12829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breast-cancer","tag-health-news","tag-restorative-yoga","tag-yoga"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12879,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions\/12879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}