The biggest tip anybody has ever given me to stay younger, fitter and age gracefully is to dance like there’s no tomorrow.

According to Peggy Buchanan, former physical education teacher in California believes that older adults getting regular physical exercise are 60 percent less likely to get dementia. Exercise increases oxygen to the brain and releases a protein that strengthens cells and neurons. Dance involves all of the above plus the cerebral activity present in learning and memory.

Decrease salt and increase your salsa, decreasing salt intake by putting down the shaker -– and increasing exercise habits by shaking to a salsa beat!