Health benefits of dance

• 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 31.
• For those with mental illness, dance could be used as a form of 32.

• accessible for people with low levels of 33.
• reduces the risk of heart disease
• better 34. reduces the risk of accidents
• improves 35. function by making it work faster
• improves participants' general well-being
• gives people more 36. to take exercise
• can lessen the feeling of 37., very common in older people

• A study at The University of Wisconsin showed that doing Zumba for 40 minutes uses up as many 38. as other quite intense forms of exercise.
• The American Journal of Health Behavior study showed that:
  • women suffering from 39. benefited from doing Zumba.
  • Zumba became a 40. for the participants.