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Why Dance? For Health ... for both Men and Women

You can't get a much higher authority on what's good for you than the U.S. Surgeon General. See what she said about dancing in the New York Times Magazine

And it's not just the physical exercise of dancing in general for which social couples dancing is particularly effective. The mental exercise of the split-second rapid-fire decision making that characterizes lead and follow dancing is far more effective protection against dementia than any other physical activity, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, as summarized by Stanford University's social dancing guru Richard Powers