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Can the music you love help your heart? Yes it can! Research shows that music you enjoy helps relax and dilate your blood vessels - helping increase blood flow, and protecting you against heart disease and damage from stress. Music you don't like, or that makes you feel stressed however - has the opposite effect:
"We had previously demonstrated that positive emotions, such as laughter, were good for vascular health," said the lead author of the study, Dr. Michael Miller, director of preventive cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center. "So, a logical question was whether other emotions, such as those evoked by music, have a similar effect. 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."
For more info click here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2008/11/music-that-touc.html
Other resources and articles here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4AB07J20081112
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200811145
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