Music Is Just as Powerful at Improving Mental Health as Exercise, Review Suggests

New research suggests the positive impact on mental health from singing, playing, or listening to music is around the same impact experienced with exercise or weight loss. "Increasing evidence supports the ability of music to broadly promote wellbeing and health-related quality of life (HRQOL)," write the researchers in their published paper. According to the study authors, the mental health boost from music is "within the range, albeit on the low end" of the same sort of impact seen in people who commit to physical exercise or weight loss programs. Learn more here.