Yoga and Health Care

Increasingly, Americans are supplementing their doctor's care with other therapies. But why?

Well, here is one reason:
"Medicare is in [terrible] shape. The program for hospital expenses will pay out more in benefits than it collects this year and will be insolvent by 2017, two years earlier than the date projected in last year's report."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090512/ap_on_bi_ge/us_social_security

Which explains a survey by the National Institutes of Health, where they found that 38% of adults and 12% of children use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM / CAMA).

Even the U.S. Air Force is embracing CAM. Over the next two yearss, its doctors will learn acupuncture (Yoga nadis and marmas) techniques before deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan. Battlefield acupuncture, for example, focuses on alleviating pain and helps treat burns and other traumatic injuries.

In all, the most popular - and effective - alternative health care choices (self-health care) today are:

-Yoga, Yoga Breathing, Meditation: 37.5%

-Yoga Therapy (Yoga massage, Thai Yoga Massage): 18.3%

-Natural and Organic Products: 17.7%

-Chiropractic, Osteopathic: 8.6%

Want to be healthy? Want to regain your health? Worried about the rising cost of health care, or the possibility that it wont exist?

Yoga is the best course of action.