Weight loss is hardly a laughing matter here in the Obese Nation,where two-thirds of adults are overweight or worse.But the newest”aha!”breakthrough in the battle of the bulge just might prompt a snicker.
One can lose weight by laughing.No joke.Purposeful laughing is gaining a following.Thousands of laugh clubs worldwide invite people to,well,laugh out loud together.A hybrid branch of psychology called”laughter therapy”is finding its way into hospitals,and a new exercise movement called Laughtercising has created guidebooks and laugh-track CDs of nonstop hooting and howling to get the yuks started.
Science is finding that laughter alone has benefits.A study from the University of Maryland School of Medicine showed that daily hearty laughing increases the blood flow by expanding stress-constricted vessels.
“A belly laugh is internal jogging,” says William Fry,associate professor emeritus of clinical psychiatry at Stanford University.Laughing involves”a great deal of physical exercise and muscular behavior”—15 facial muscles plus dozens of others all over your body that flex and relax.Your pulse and respiration increase,oxygenating the blood.
“Laughing 100to200times per day is the cardiovascular equivalent of rowing for 10 minutes,”Fry calculates.
Laughter sets the respiratory apparatus and its muscles into motion, he says.Which means even employees who laugh too hard and too long at the boss’ jokes are getting healthier,if not ahead.
Lee Berk,associate research professor of pathology and human anatomy at Loma Linda University,is a pioneer in studying the effects of laughter.
“The biological changes we see with moderate,routine exercise,”he says,”are very similar to the changes we see with the constant use of mirthful laughter.”But can laughter make an ounce of difference in that midriff bulge?That hasnt been proved but can be extrapolated,Berk says.He figures that one day doctors will tell overweight patients to eat right,exercise and get 15minutes a day of hearty laughter.Robert Provine,professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Maryland Baltimore County,thinks thats a little premature.In 2000,he wrote the book called”Laughter:A Scientific Investigation.”He says that for laughter to produce the same benefits as aerobic exercise,it would require a long,sustained bout of hysterics.
“If we were treating laughter as a drug and it had to go for review before the FDA,”he says,”it wouldn’t pass because we really dont understand its physiological correlates and consequences.”He chuckles.”Having said that,a life with laughter is certainly more fulfilling than one without.”
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