Tai chi: An ancient art that helps the heart

According to this website post that I found, doing tai chi might help a person with heart failure. I wished they would have gone a little into how they found out about the connection. When Harvard tested the hypothesis, they found that the people who did the tai chi exercises proved to be able to walk further without losing their breathe.

There were two reasons that this might occur. One was that the movements of tai chi require bent legs which would help strengthen the leg muscle. The other was that the deep breaths also required in tai chi would help a person raise their blood-oxygen levels and ease breathlessness.

Of courses their are skeptics. Also stated in this article is that these people may just do better from the added attention. I personally believe that the added exercise did help despite the arguments of skeptics. Getting a person with heart failure up and moving is a good thing. It will help their heart and body to become stronger.

http://health.msn.com/centers/cardio/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100100798