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Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect the correct headline, “Free Classes Encourage Island Fitness.” The story was originally published with the headline “Gym Offers Free Fitness Classes.”

Barry Patel, owner of the Hilton Garden Inn on South Padre Island, is sponsoring a free community mat pilates class with the goal of encouraging both residents and hotel guests to move more, feel better and make wellness part of their everyday lives

A new randomised controlled trial from the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry has found that something as unassuming as an eight-week salsa programme can meaningfully ease depressive symptoms in young adults. The study, run with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and published in Psychological Medicine, recruited 121 participants aged 18 to 24 with mild…