Enlist four asanas those help to control asthma. (½ × 4)

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Q. Enlist four asanas those help to control asthma. (½ \times 4)

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Concept understanding — Lifestyle Disease Definition

Lifestyle Disease: A First Look

Think about how differently people live today compared to a generation ago. Long hours at a desk or in front of a screen, food that comes packaged and processed rather than cooked fresh, disturbed sleep, and near-constant low-grade stress have become normal. A lifestyle disease is the health cost of exactly this shift — it is a condition that develops, gradually and silently, out of the way a person actually lives from day to day.

The Core Idea

A lifestyle disease is not caused by catching an infection from someone else, and it is not simply inherited. It develops over months and years from sustained, repeated habits: what a person eats, how much they move, whether they use tobacco or alcohol, how they handle stress, and how well they sleep. Because these diseases cannot pass from one person to another, they are classed as non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

The body copes well with occasional lapses — one poor night's sleep or one unhealthy meal does little lasting damage. The trouble begins when unhealthy patterns become the routine, not the exception. Over time, that routine wears down the body's systems, and a lifestyle disease is the result.

Diseases This Unit Covers

The unit frames yoga as a preventive tool against exactly this group of conditions, and works through five of them in turn: obesity, diabetes mellitus, bronchial asthma, hypertension, and low back pain. Each of these is linked, in different ways, to sedentary routines, occupational patterns (sitting for long hours, repetitive strain, poor posture), and chronic stress — the same underlying causes described above, expressed differently depending on which body system bears the strain.

Why It Matters

Lifestyle diseases are now the leading cause of death worldwide, and they no longer wait for old age — a person in their twenties or thirties with poor daily habits can already show early signs of high blood pressure or insulin resistance. …

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Four asanas that help control asthma are Sukhasana, Chakrasana, Gomukhasana and Matsyasana — each works by opening the chest, expanding the lungs, improving posture or calming the breath.

Asthma narrows and inflames the airways, causing wheezing, breathlessness and chest tightness. Regular, gentle yoga supports the lungs by strengthening the muscles of breathing, widening the chest, correcting posture and reducing stress, which is a common trigger. The following four asanas are useful for this:

Sukhasana (Easy Pose) — a comfortable cross-legged seated posture with an erect spine. It settles the breath, calms the nervous system and opens the chest for easier, deeper breathing.
Chakrasana (Wheel Pose) — a backward-bending arch that strongly expands the chest and rib cage, stretches the muscles between the ribs and increases the capacity of the lungs.
Gomukhasana (Cow Face Pose) — a seated pose with one arm reaching over the shoulder and the other up the back. It opens the chest, draws the shoulders back and corrects the rounded posture that restricts lung expansion. …

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CBSE 2026Set 75/SRP1Q/41 markMCQ
$Q. Gagan wants to prevent himself from asthma and hypertension. Identify the asanas to prevent him from these life style diseases. (A) Uttan Mandukasana, Vakrasana (B) Supta Vajarasana, Vakrasana (C) Chakrasana, Uttan Mandukasana (D) Vakrasana, Chakrasan$
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For preventing asthma and hypertension together, the suitable pair is Uttan Mandukasana and Vakrasana — option (A). Uttan Mandukasana opens the chest and improves breathing; Vakrasana is a mild twist that aids circulation and calms the body, and neither pose carries the blood-pressure-raising strain of a deep backbend.

Matching the asanas to the two conditions

Asthma is a disorder of the airways that makes breathing difficult, so an asana that expands the chest and strengthens respiration helps prevent it. Hypertension is persistently raised blood pressure, so the asanas chosen must calm the body and avoid strenuous effort that would itself push pressure higher.

Uttan Mandukasana stretches the chest and ribcage and encourages deeper breathing, directly supporting the respiratory system against asthma.

Vakrasana, a gentle seated spinal twist, massages the abdominal organs, improves circulation and has a settling, relaxing effect — safe and useful for someone managing blood pressure.

Why the other options do not fit …
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CBSE 2024Set 75/RQPS/41 markMCQ
$Q. Which of the following pranayama is helpful to reduce obesity? (A) Kapalbhati Pranayama (B) Anulom Vilom Pranayama (C) Suryabhedan Pranayama (D) Sitili Pranayama$
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Answer: (C) Suryabhedan Pranayama. By activating the body's heat-producing response and lifting metabolic and digestive activity, Suryabhedan is the breathing technique linked with reducing obesity; the other three mainly calm or cool the body.

How a breathing technique can help with obesity

Obesity is an excess build-up of body fat that comes from taking in more energy than the body spends. A breathing practice helps with weight management only if it raises the metabolic rate and stimulates the body's heat-generating, energy-using processes rather than simply relaxing the mind. That is the test which separates the four options.

Why Suryabhedan is the answer

Suryabhedan means the "sun-piercing" breath. It is performed by inhaling through the right nostril — the surya (sun) side, associated with heat and energy — and exhaling through the left. Practised regularly it:

stimulates the heat-generating, energising side of the nervous system;

increases the internal body temperature and the "digestive fire", improving digestion and metabolism;

supports a higher rate of energy use, which helps the body burn excess stored fat.

Because it actively raises heat and metabolic activity, it is the pranayama identified as useful in reducing obesity.

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