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Every major hospital, reputable hotel and institution, has a health club manned by a sports and exercise physician unknown as physiatrist. This is because physical fitness is a component of good health that leads to healthy living.
The Nazi’s regime under Adolf Hitler used sports and physical fitness as a component of racial superiority over other races. It is for this reason that a physiatrist promotes dancing as part of exercise and physical fitness to help people lose weight, lower blood sugar, improve mental health, reduce pulse rate and stress, burns fat, controls type 2 diabetes and relieve anxiety.
Dancing can also lower back pain and reduce breast size. “Regular exercise significantly improves overall health by boosting the cardiovascular system, strengthening muscles and above all, reducing the risk of chronic diseases,” which is why l recently launched a programme known as “Dance for Wellness,” says sports and exercise physician Lucy Mwai.
Ms Mwai, who is the managing director of My Little Dance Limited, says “Dance for Wellness”, is a community wellness programme which uses movement, dance and creative expression to address physical health, mental well-being and social connection across all ages and abilities.
She notes that the initiative has brought together diverse voices from the health, creative and wellness individuals to help, educate and involve people in dancing and other forms of exercise to manage certain conditions to live a healthy life.
“Every doctor treating you for bacterial, viral and chronic diseases will always tell you that must exercise regularly,” says Dr Ben Midia of Kenyatta National Hospital. Exercise builds bone density to help you prevent bone fractures and osteoporosis,” says Dr Midia.
According to Mwai, if you are involved in serious dance, running, serious walk, frog jumps, press-ups, yoga exercises, sporting activities, be sure of an improved balance and mobility, you will burn calories, you will reduce the risk of obesity, this is because exercise releases endorphins, which have a sense of calm and well-being.
Her initiative is not just a fitness programme, it is a lifestyle shift, a national wellness movement. A story of hope, inclusion and transformation. She says as social isolation is on the rise in the country. Dance for Wellness offers a fresh, holistic solution rooted in joy, creativity and community support.
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