Care mind and body, as evidenced by numerous studies on the beneficial effects of laughter. Even a fake smile can help
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship and it is by far the best way to end it, "said Oscar Wilde. Feeling down? Try to laugh more, or at least smile. That the rice makes good blood, but science is popular saying confirmation. Laughter improves your mood and stress resistance, good for the heart, lift up the immune system, improves breast milk, making a shield against allergies because of the baby when her mother laughing increases the amount of melatonin. You do not need that laughter is true: imitation is fine, even induced, taking a pen in his mouth and forcing the upper lip to get up to show their teeth, ensures Starck Fritz, a psychologist with a long academic career now at Würzburg, in a special dedicated the question in the journal Mind. The studies that laugh and smile are the best medicine, after all, are not lacking.
Willibald Ruch, University of Zurich has shown that laughter aroused by the characters, whether in comedy or jokes, they raise the threshold of pain: volunteers for a study group who managed to take longer in the hand 'ice water without pain were also those who until recently had fun laughing at the jokes. Who is willing to humor and laughter easy, then, has 40% less than the curmudgeons possibility of being subject to heart attack, says a study by Michael Miller of the University of Maryland, presented several years ago. Laughing 15 minutes a day helps also to lose weight (even four pounds in one year). This supports a study published in the International Journal of Obesity, conducted by Maciej Buchowski of Vanderbilt University in Nashville (Tennessee, USA), who examined the energy expenditure of a group of people confronted with a variety of TV programs. Well, the comedies have required 20% of caloric intake in addition, because laughter increases the heart rate and engages many muscles, producing the same effect as a healthy walk.
Laughter is a kind of "social lubricant," an ancestral place, a way to make new friends, and to consolidate other, secure membership in the social hierarchy, said Robert R. Provine, a psychologist and neurologist at the University the argument that Maine has dedicated 20 years of research, to reach the conclusion that laughter is not only the intellectual response to something funny but is a survival instinct, characteristic of social animals. Not for nothing the first to theorize the importance was Charles Darwin in his expression of emotions in animals and humans. The smile helps
social relations but also the mood and makes people even more sexy. A study by Eric Bressler of Westfield State College has shown that women are judged more attractive subjects of the photo below which there is a line that is attributed to the man immortalized in the shot. Some psychiatrists use the smile therapy to treat mild forms depression, but a sense of humor and ability to defuse have proven effective in more severe cases. A group of psychiatrists tdesca University of Marburg have proven that they are essential in a strategy of detachment from issues because it helps to see them in a different light.
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