Yoga Offers Range Of Health Benefits Summary

In “Yoga Offers Range of Health Benefits,” initially published in 2015 in the Harvard Men’s Health Watch, argues, when examined through research, yoga offers a wide range of health benefits to people who practice this particular form of exercise. The general purpose of this article appears to be both informative and persuasive. To go more in depth, I gather that the purpose is to inform readers about yoga and how it can affect their lives in order to persuade them to attempt it. In doing so, the article discusses specific topics regarding what yoga is, yoga’s affect on health, yoga’s affect on the heart, who yoga is for, and how to begin doing yoga.. Therefore, even though this article is considered to be an educated written article about yoga’s health benefits, it still evidently lacks aspects of depth, relevance, and credibility when supporting its claim. This article fails to go into depth with its supporting evidence. One point within the article mentions the phrase “Some studies show that yoga improves arthritis symptoms, low back pain, and balance” (5). Considering this statement, the article lacks any information as to what studies it may be referring to. This could lead readers to question whether or not this is a reliable statement. Likewise, the article goes on to mention a review, led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health, which explains how yoga was beneficial to the health of multiple participants. Unfortunately, this article fails to go fully in-depth with the study by not including this particular study’s background of the participants or the limitations of the research. These crucial components of any study are some of the most vital aspects that are used in order to determine if a study is even accurate or not. Within the article “Yoga Offers Range of Health Benefits” there lays irrelevant content that adds no value its overall purpose. …show more content…
For instance, the article brings in a quote from Maren Nayer, “It [yoga] packs a powerful punch” (5). This doesn’t offer the article any form of worthy support. Rather it makes the article appear to be rather wordy. Likewise, as stated earlier, the article discusses who can participate in yoga. Within this individual section, it explains how the amount of individuals who participate in yoga has increased over the years (5). Also, the article brings about the notion of how men shouldn’t down put the idea of trying yoga (5). These details mentioned, don’t offer valuable argument towards the persuasive purpose of the article. Irrelevant information causes the reader to lose sight of the actual intent of the article. Instead, the article may have been better off by omitting this content. Although this article was published in an Ivy League school’s magazine, it fails to offer reliable forms of credibility. If examining the article, an individual will find that it will not be able to provide an actual author. This is one of the important aspects in …show more content…
yoga offers a range of health benefits” (5). One of the factors is how the article doesn’t use valuable and complex material to support its foremost declaration. Likewise, the purpose of this article often appears to be unclear because of the use of irrelevant information, which undeniably could cause a reader to become confused. Also, the article fails to include fundamental bases of credibility by not sourcing where the article’s information was initially