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  .

●   For those with mental illness, dance could be used as a form of  .

Benefits of dance for older people:

●   accessible for people with low levels of

●   reduces the risk of heart disease

●   better  reduces the risk of accidents

●   improves  function by making it work faster

●   improves participants' general well-being

●   gives people more  to take exercise

●   can lessen the feeling of  , 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  as other quite intense forms of exercise.

●   The American Journal of Health Behavior study showed that:

     –  women suffering from  benefited from doing Zumba.

     –  Zumba became a  for the participants.