Abstract

Obesity becomes a universal health issue and due to lifestyle changes, it is regularly increasing day-by-day. Childhood/pediatric obesity become recent pandemic with high magnitude. Familiar mutation and lifestyle factors like intake of excessive high energy food, physical inactivity are most common causes of overweight and obesity. Wide ranged review was conducted from databases including PubMed and Google Scholar. The study assesses changes in the anthropometric index and quality of life in obese children following yoga. Yoga plays a significant role in reducing anthropometric index in obese and over weight children and improves psychological and emotional functioning including quality of life.

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