A friend of mine found this article on the Medical News Today website. It seems like every day more and more information is being discovered on the benefits of music to a person’s whole health and body. Why not come and try a Kindermusik class for music, movement and laughter during these bleak days of grey winter weather. Not only will it benefit your child in innumerable ways, but it will also help you. That’s a pretty good value for your money in these hard economic times. Parents and caregivers who come to class weekly will tell you they get a workout and have fun, just as much as their children do.
Here’s the beginning of the article:
Listening to your favorite music may be good for your cardiovascular system. Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have shown for the first time that the emotions aroused by joyful music have a healthy effect on blood vessel function.
Music, selected by study participants because it made them feel good and brought them a sense of joy, caused tissue in the inner lining of blood vessels to dilate (or expand) in order to increase blood flow. This healthy response matches what the same researchers found in a 2005 study of laughter. On the other hand, when study volunteers listened to music they perceived as stressful, their blood vessels narrowed, producing a potentially unhealthy response that reduces blood flow.
The results of the study, conducted at the University of Maryland Medical Center, were presented at the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, on November 11, 2008, in New Orleans.
“We had previously demonstrated that positive emotions, such as laughter, were good for vascular health. So, a logical question was whether other emotions, such as those evoked by music, have a similar effect,” says principal investigator Michael Miller, M.D., director of preventive cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. “We knew that individual people would react differently to different types of music, so in this study, we enabled participants to select music based upon their likes and dislikes.”
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2 Comments
February 2, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Thanks for sharing. That is really interesting. No wonder I like music so much!
April 15, 2009 at 9:40 am
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