Health benefits of dance

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Health benefits of dance

Recent findings:
● All forms of dance produce various hormones associated with feelings of happiness.
● Dancing with others has a more positive impact than dancing alone.
● An experiment on university students suggested that dance increases 31. .
● For those with mental illness, dance could be used as a form of 32. .

Benefits of dance for older people:
● Accessible for people with low levels of 33.
● Reduces the risk of heart disease
● Better 34. reduces the risk of accidents
● Improves 35. function by making it work faster
● Improves participants’ general well-being
● Gives people more 36. to take exercise
● Can lessen the feeling of 37. , very common in older people

Benefits of Zumba:
● A study at The University of Wisconsin showed that doing Zumba for 40 minutes uses up as many 38. as other quite intense forms of exercise.
● The American Journal of Health Behavior study showed that:
   – Women suffering from 39. benefited from doing Zumba.
   – Zumba became a 40. for the participants.