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Daily Archive November 21st, 2006

Waltzing for a Healthy Heart

By Layna Berman, November 21, 2006 in the Editorials blog

Two weeks ago the Associated Press reported on Italian research into cardiac rehabilitation. Eighty-nine men and eleven women suffering from heart failure, at an average age of 59 were divided into three groups. One group had the usual supervised treadmill and cycling workouts three times a week. Another group had no exercise. And the third group, the most successful group……waltzed! [Read more…]