Dancing Can Make You Smarter
Use It or Lose It: Dancing Makes You Smarter, Longer.
Richard Powers
For centuries, dance manuals and other writings have lauded the health benefits of dancing, usually as physical exercise. More recently we've seen research on further health benefits of dancing, such as stress reduction and increased serotonin level, with its sense of well-being.
Most recently we've heard of another benefit: Frequent dancing apparently makes us smarter.
A major study added to the growing evidence that stimulating one's mind by dancing can ward off Alzheimer's disease and other dementia, much as physical exercise can keep the body fit. Dancing also increases cognitive acuity at all ages. CLICK HERE for More info...
That
seems to be the gist of a new study published in the New England
Journal of Medicine. The research, led by neurologist Dr. Joe Verghese
at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, followed elderly subjects over
an impressive 21-year period...more...
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