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Does singing in a chorus make you healthier? |
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Written by CASA NewsLink
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
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Page 1 of 2 It appears to. And that's great news for the 29 million adults and children
who sing in America's 250,000 professional, community, church, and school choruses,
according to figures from Chorus America, a service organization.
It's not clear how much of the health benefit is due to hanging out with other
people and how much to the artistic challenge, but a handful of studies suggest
that, for whatever mix of reasons, choral singing is good for your health.
In 2006, Dr. Gene Cohen, a psychiatrist and director of the Center on Aging,
Health and Humanities at George Washington University, published results of
a federally funded study on 300 people aged 65 to 103 in three cities. In each
city, half of the participants attended an arts program and half did not.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 May 2008 )
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