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Listening to music can lower cholesterol levels and improve heart health
I found the following article on the net. You will find different versions
of it but they all say more or less the same "Listening to music can lower
cholesterol levels and improve heart health, according to a new study"
My source:
http://www.andhranews.net/Health/2008/December/21-Listening-music-80150.asp
London, Dec 21 : Listening to music can lower cholesterol levels and
improve heart health, according to a new study.
During their study, researchers at Maryland University found that if a
patient listens to 30 minutes a day of their favourite music, it does more
than relaxing them mentally - it also benefits them physically by
expanding and clearing blood vessels.
The method has been tried on some patients in America and it has been
welcomed by British experts.
Music is believed to work by triggering the release into the bloodstream
of nitric oxide, which helps to prevent the build-up of blood clots and
harmful cholesterol.
The researchers have found that songs by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Madonna
can improve endurance, while 18th-century symphonies can improve mental
focus.
However, when it comes to the effect on the bloodstream, the key is not
the type of music but what the listener prefers. The same is true of
volume and tempo.
"The music effect lasts in the bloodstream for only a few seconds but the
accumulative benefit of favourite tunes lasts and can be very positive in
people of all ages," Times Online quoted Michael Miller, director of the
Center for Preventive Cardiology at Maryland University, who conducted the
study, as saying.
"We were looking for cheaper, nonpharmacological aids to help us improve
our patients' heart health and we think this is the prescription," he
added.
The study, based on healthy non-smoking men and women with an average age
of 36, found the diameter of blood vessels in the upper arm expanded by 26
percent in volunteers listening to music they found enjoyable.
Miller said blood vessel expansion indicated that nitric oxide was being
released throughout the body, reducing clots and LDL, a form of
cholesterol linked to heart attacks.
He also warned that listening to stressful music, which for many in the
experiments included heavy metal and rap, can shrink blood vessels by 6
percent.
Miller also advised parents to avoid listening to their teenage children's
music if it upset them because it could be the aural equivalent of passive
smoking.
"I like Merseybeat-era Beatles and Julia from their White Album and you
cannot get two more different types of song, but I think both work for my
heart," he said.
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