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Health benefits of laughter
By Debra Antico



Have you ever felt better after a good laugh? That’s partly because laughter has medical benefits that have been proven by patients as well as medical professionals. It relieves and reverses everything from chronic pain to cancer. It increases the number of natural killer cells that attack vital infected cells and some types of cancer tumor cells.

Laughter increases gamma interferon which tells various components of the immune system to “turn on.”

Those exposed to humor had lower epinephrine then those who had not. Laughter is also aerobic and increases the bodies ability to use oxygen.

Laughter can also aide in the treatment after surgery in conjunction of medication BUT should in no way replace it.

There are several benefits of laughter which are :

A It’s free

B There’s no known side effects

Still not convinced?

Belly laughing results in muscle relaxation and those that are not involved in the laughing relax and those that are involve soon relax after you’ve stopped laughing.

Laughter reduces hormone levels associated with stress.

Humor also allows a person to forget the aches and pains from such things as arthritis, cancer, cramps and other ailments .

Woman seem to benefit more then men in the prevention of hypertension but men don’t stop laughing it helps you too!

Last but not least, belly laughing empties your lungs of air resulting in a cleansing effect; Similar to deep breathing. Especially beneficial for those who suffer from emphysema and or other respatory ailments.

Medical benefit research~

Despite the development of new fangled imaging machines like MRI’s and DET’s scans, neuroscientists still have little idea what’s happening in our brain when we laugh. Certainly the brain stem plays a role .What is most significant about this wave is that it carpets our entire cerebral cortex rather then focusing on one spot.

According to one study by psycho...

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Two kids are arguing over whose father is the wimpiest. The first one says," My dad is so scared that when lightning strikes, he slides underneath our bed." The second kid says, "That's nothing. My dad is so scared that when my mother works nightshift, he sleeps with the woman next door.

A woman comes home and tells her husband, "Remember those

Headaches I've been having all these years? Well, they're gone."



"No more headaches?" the husband asks, "What happened?"

His wife replies, Margie referred me to a hypnotist. He told me To

Stand in front of a mirror, stare at myself and repeat

"I do not Have a Headache;

I do not have a headache,

I do not have a headache."











It Worked! The headaches are all gone."



The husband replies, "Well, that is wonderful."

His wife then says, "You know, you haven't been exactly a ball

Of Fire in the bedroom these last few years. Why don't you go see the

Hypnotist and see if he can do anything for that?"

The husband agrees to try it





Following his appointment, the husband comes home, rips off his

Clothes, picks up his wife and carries her into the bedroom.

He Puts her on The bed and says, "Don't move, I'll be right back." He goes into The Bathroom and comes back. A few minutes later and jumps into bed And makes Passionate love to his wife like never before.

His wife says, "Boy, that was wonderful!"

The husband says, "Don't move! I will be right back." He goes

Back Into the bathroom, comes back and round two was even better than The First time. The wife sits up and her head is spinning.

Her husband again says, "Don't move, I'll be right back." With

That, He goes back in the bathroom.

This time, his wife quietly follows him and there, in the Bathroom,



She sees him standing at the mirror and saying,

"She's not my Wife.

She's Not my wife.

She's not my wife..."







His funeral services will be held on Friday.