Not that I needed yet another reason to keep dancing, but...
The Washington Post Express had an article about how to save your brain cells, and was encouraging people to choose hip hop or Kung Fu as their exercise of choice. It turns out there is a book "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" by John Ratey where the author suggest that you either take dance or martial arts classes because you're required to position different parts of your body simultaneously and in a coordinated way along with listening to music - really working your brain.
I suppose this also means that I should keep trying different types of dance to keep the class mentally challenging, instead of taking jazz classes (which I've been taking for 24 years). So I think I'll take Brazilian Samba tonight...
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