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Bust a move: Dancing may lift teens' mental health

(11/21/2012)

Bust a move: Dancing may lift teens' mental health
MyHealthNewsDaily

November 13, 2012

Getting out on the dance floor and busting some moves could give a lift to the health of teen girls with mild mental health problems, a new study suggests. Results showed that girls who took twice-weekly dance classes showed more improvement in their ratings of their own health, even months after the classes ended, compared with girls in the control group.

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