Health benefits of dance

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Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

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 1 

-    For those with mental illness, dance could be used as a form of 2 

Benefits of dance for older people:

-    accessible for people with low levels of 3

-    reduces the risk of heart disease

-    better 4 reduces the risk of accidents

-    improves 5 function by making it work faster

-    improves participants’ general well-being

-    gives people more 6 to take exercise

-    can lessen the feeling of 7, 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 8 as other quite intense forms of exercise.

-    The American Journal of Health Behavior study showed that:

     –  women suffering from 9 benefited from doing Zumba.

     –  Zumba became a 10 for the participants.