Benefits of yoga: Relaxing movements target tension, which can alleviate other health problems (The Olympian)

"A lot of our diseases have some sort of origins in stress, and the stress reaction," said William Frey, who is leading a yoga class at Rex Healthcare in Raleigh, N.C., as part of a UNC-Chapel Hill study among patients with irritable bowel syndrome. "By taking care of stress, you're starting to eliminate some of the diseases that are caused by it."