Comfort Life News Round-up: Seniors and Dancing

Do you dance at home when no one's watching? Do you dance while you clean the house? Does your signifcant other wish you'd stop? Don't!

Dancing is a great way to boost your mood, lower your blood pressure and cholesterol and of course help you lose weight, build bone and muscle mass and increase your flexibiity, strength and stamina. It can even lessen chronic pain. What's not to love?



That's why when someone in our office found this video about seniors dancing to rap music we just had to share it.

http://youtu.be/X4GW1TCuJ54

Here are a few other dancing links that caught our eye this week:

Belly dancing class for senior women

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2011/02/09/pei-f-senior-belly-dancing.html

Three 70-something men pay homage to Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIsLsDXXJUE

Health benefits of dancing

http://www.aarp.org/health/fitness/info-2005/dance_to_health.html

And who can forget the master who inspired so many dancers, Fred Astaire?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=ulkCG2E-QNY

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