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Monday, November 13, 2006
Waltzing helps mend hearts
Italian researchers have come up with a novel way for cardiac rehabilitation patients to exercise their damaged hearts without having to squeeze into spandex or gyrate in a gym: waltzing. The dance proved to be just as effective as bicycle and treadmill training for improving exercise capacity in a study of 110 heart failure patients. Dancers also reported slightly more improvement in sleep, mood, and the ability to do hobbies, do housework and have sex than the others. "This may be a more effective way of getting people to exercise, and may be more fun than running on a treadmill." (Full story here)
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