Dancing During Pregnancy Can Be Healthy!

This morning on Good Morning America, they discussed how dancing can be a healthy way to prepare for child birth. Click Here to View the Video

Disney's Try It Campaign Highlighting How Dance Keeps You Healthy!!!

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Check out the video!!!!
http://video.disney.com/watch/disneychannel-try-it-newsies-2014-4f500a261e40ffd7f972614f

Dance Towards Health joins the Hip Hop Public Health Movement!

Two of Dance Towards Health (DTH)  Co-Founders: Chef April Greer and India Gaston have signed on to be one of the Inaugural Ambassadors for the non-profit organization, Hip Hop Public Health, which is also a partner with the Partnership for a Healthier America.  Please time some time to check out the profiles of the new Ambassador program.

Check out our first feature on PreventObesity.net

While we are preparing to officially launch The Dance Towards Health Program in Summer 2014, we have been busy, and will continue to get organized and form partnerships with as many great organizations as possible.  One great organization is PreventObesity.net.  I recently became a Leader with the website.  I am very excited about the affiliation. They featured me in the "Gimme Five" section this week.  Below is the link, please check it out!    http://ht.ly/u4E8T

Gimme Five: India “Indi Tyton” Gaston - PreventObesity.net

Gimme Five: India “Indi Tyton” Gaston - PreventObesity.net

Dance Towards Health

DTH (Dance Towards Health ) recognizes the serious threat obesity poses to the health of America’s children and Adults , And the importance of decreasing its prevalence, not only in Georgia, but across the entire United States .Through programs like DTH (Dance Towards Health ), we are confident that we can play a significant role in remedying this problem. We want the message to resonate with all families, no matter their circumstance or socio-economic background.

During the past four decades, obesity rates have soared among all age groups, increasing more than fourfold among children ages 6 to 11. According to a 2010 study released by the Center for Disease Control, more than 12 million children and teenagers (16.9%) ages 2 to 19 are obese or overweight, a statistic that health and medical experts consider an epidemic.  In Georgia, one in five children is overweight

 Our mission is to inspire and enrich the communities we serve through dance,  nutrition and healthy living

The overstressed lives most of us lead today make the picture even more complicated. “We’re also hard-wired to store up calories to deal with stress,” says Boggiano, recalling that primordial savanna. “In those days, stress involved events where we needed energy. It was important for the body to have plenty of calories if it was being attacked by a saber-toothed tiger.” Food fuels muscles to launch a life-saving response (something along the lines of “Run for your life!”)—so “it makes sense for survival that stress and food are coupled,” she adds.

But in modern life, most of the stresses we face are the sedentary, nonfuel-requiring type—like that overdue presentation that must be finished tonight or the simmering feud with a nasty in-law. Nonetheless, the vestigial connections between food and stress remain—and we turn to food to soothe, or distract us from, our stressful emotions, especially if we have a tendency to binge. There’s a reason why we often turn to chocolate, cake and other treats. Anything high in sugar and fat causes opioids—“feel-good” chemicals like endorphins—to be released in the brain, which replace stressed-out feelings with pleasurable ones. Researchers from Boggiano’s lab and from the University of California, San Francisco, also found that sugary, fatty foods seem to help suppress levels of a key stress hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH).

So if your not fighting Giants or slaying lions and tigers and bears oh my ! then we at DTH suggest use that food to fuel your body to dance and relieve that stress  





sources from www.eatingwell.com