{"id":2838,"date":"2014-06-02T21:25:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T21:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2014-06-02T21:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T21:25:26","slug":"healthy-start-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/blog\/nutrition-health\/healthy-start-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Healthy Start to Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting the summer off healthy can be a challenge in itself.\u00a0 We all know how difficult it can be to convince ourselves to visit the gym when summer fun is beckoning us to new adventures.<\/p>\n<p>So how can we maintain a healthy life style while not missing out on the joys of summer? By becoming involved in activities that promote the enthusiasm and energy of the summer season- activities\u00a0<em>like dancing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dancing certainly serves as a wonderful social outlet, but<strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>perhaps dancing\u2019s best kept secret<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>is the multitude of benefits it offers to everyone at every stage of life.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2018weight-bearing\u2019 exercise, dancing allows you to strengthen your muscles and joints by working at your body\u2019s own level of fitness. The variety of muscles that you use while dancing makes it very effective for toning and increasing your coordination and balance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best part is, the list continues:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>from increased flexibility, reduced tension and heightened stamina, dancing provides a healthy approach to your overall well-being.<\/p>\n<p>So as the summer starts to wind itself up, take time to make a healthy start:<strong>\u00a0<em>take time to dance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting the summer off healthy can be a challenge in itself.\u00a0 We all know how difficult it can be to convince ourselves to visit the gym when summer fun is beckoning us to new adventures. So how can we maintain a healthy life style while not missing out on the joys of summer? By becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/youngstown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}