Why busting a move can enhance your fitness, your mood and the size of your brain.
Dancing is great fun: it can connect you with others and lift your mood. But research is shedding light on just how much it can benefit your health and wellbeing.
Dancing can greatly increase the brain’s hippocampus – an area which plays an important role in learning, memory and navigation in space.Scientists think that human society may have evolved a special relationship to dance and this could explain why it can trigger positive feelings. When an Australian team surveyed almost 50,000 adults about their hobbies, and followed them up 12 years later, what they found was surprising. Dancing was linked to a 46% reduced risk of stroke or heart attack, more so than other types of activities at the same intensity . Frequent walkers, for example, didn’t benefit to the same degree.
In one study involving healthy volunteers, a 30-minute salsa class was shown to boost spatial working memory by 18% after just one session.
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