About dance & your health

Dances of all kinds are known to be beneficial to your health and some aspects can be dangerous. Here's some info.....

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Out of 98 common activities studied including many sports, reading, board games, crossword puzzles, singing, acting, playing an instrument, listening to music, using computers, working out, aerobics, bicycling, bowling, etc. ONLY BALLROOM DANCING was effective at staving off the progression of Alzheimers disease. It is postulated that the combination of exercise, learning of step patterns & social interaction confers this remarkable preventive power to dancers! Dance improves our memory by making us recall steps, routines and dance patterns, making it a great mental exercise for our brains. The big benefit is that increasing mental exercise keeps your mind young, quick, alert and open.

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"...the waltzers had better oxygen uptake and less muscle fatigue than a group doing more traditional exercises and a control group who did not exercise. They also reported a better quality of life."

- R. Belardinelli, MD of the Lancisi Heart Institute in Ancona, Italy

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