Dance it Out! By: Mary Richard / Health Fitness Dance is good for your brain. Dancing is good for your soul! Dance with LIFE, dance with LOVE, dance with CONVICTION. I’ve been a dancer most of my life - since a young child. I had way too much energy, so my mother put me in dance classes at the age of 3. I loved it and have been a dancer ever since. Dance has many benefits beyond exercise. Science has proven that dance improves the memory, increases muscle tone and helps to lower the risk of dementia. I’m now in my 72nd year and will continue dancing until I am unable to! My Zumba classes are a form of exercise as well as dance. Dancing helps to increase neural activity and helps your balance by training your brain to achieve opposition with either the right or left area of your bodies. In my zumba classes, I use this method of opposition to gear students to utilize both areas of our aging brains. You can find various methods of dance throughout international countries. That’s why I love zumba so much. It allows me to learn and promote various dance methods. I’ve been to every zumba convention for the past 10 years and although there are various languages spoken at our international convention, when the music comes on and we learn new methods, language is irrelevant and we dance our hearts out! Enjoy the resurgence of dance classes on TV - from “Dancing with The Stars” to “So You Think You Can Dance.” There are various dance studios cropping up, so find a class that will jog your interest. Look for ballroom, ballet, zumba classes or wherever your heart leads you. Believe me - it will change your life and health. You will feel better, sleep better and meet new people who also will enjoy the love of dance. Remember: Dance like no one is watching! POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND HAPPY HEALTH TO ALL! A Multidisciplinary Approach By: Kyo Mitchell / A Healthier You Medicine is not simply one approach, or one discipline. The human body is so complex that one method cannot simply cover all the medical problems that humans experience. When approaching medicine, it is important to understanding the strengths of each medical discipline, and its methodology. Let me give you an example. A lot of my patients say: “I hate taking all these drugs.” Such drugs however have their place and, of course are important. What they do is to help stabilize the body's physiological processes in some way so that your health and well-being do not decline any further. However, the one thing you have to understand is that pharmaceutical drugs do not cure the body. Only the body can do that. The question that should be entering your mind is, “If drugs stabilize me, but do not necessarily return me to the highest state of function possible, is there something that can?” That is not a simple question. For the body to return to a high state of function, it needs the correct resources and the correct signals in the correct order to repair itself. This is why nutrition, acupuncture, chiropractic and other disciplines are so important. In reference to signals that help the body return to a healthy state of function, there is one medical approach that is reemerging after nearly being lost. Approximately a century ago, doctors were using electrical signals to alter what happened in the body and treat pain and numerous other medical problems. These electrical signals could allegedly decrease pain, decrease inflammation, help tissues and organs recover from trauma and function more efficiently, just to name a few. This is done without the side effects commonly seen with drugs. No form of medicine is perfect. Each has strengths to offer as well as limitations. By learning to combine the various disciplines to each medical problem, science will continue to evolve and increase the quality of life of individuals everywhere. Mary Richard was crowned Ms. Senior Nevada 2006, was first runner-up for Ms. Senior America 2006 and is a life-time dancer. Mary can be reached at mary-vegasvoice@cox.net. 36 May 2017 Dr. Kyo Mitchell served as faculty at Bastyr University in Seattle and Wongu University in Las Vegas for over a decade. Dr. Mitchell practices in Summerlin and can be reached at 702-481-6216 or rkyomitchell@gmail.com.
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