STOP LAUGHING YOU EDIOTS......ENGLISH..:roll:
BIRMINGHAM, England, Dec. 17-- Laughter may not be the best medicine after all and can even be harmful to some patients, British researchers suggest.
Robin Ferner of City Hospital Birmingham, in England, and colleagues conducted a review of studies that reported the benefits and harms of laughter. They used data published from 1946 to 2013.
The researchers identified benefits from laughter; harms from laughter and conditions causing pathological laughter.
Some medical conditions benefit from "unintentional," or Duchenne, laughter. Laughter can increase pain thresholds although hospital clowns had no impact on distress in children undergoing minor surgery -- even though they were in stitches, the Christmas edition of The British Medical Journal reported.
Laughter reduced arterial wall stiffness, and it lowered the risk of heart attack, so "reading the Christmas British Medical Journal could add years to your life," the researchers suggested.
However, clowns improved lung function in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and "genuine laughter" for a whole day could burn 2,000 calories and lower the blood sugar in people with diabetics, the review found.
Laughter also enhanced fertility: 36 percent of would-be mothers who were entertained by a clown after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer became pregnant compared with 20 percent in the control group.
However, laughter can also have adverse effects. One woman with racing heart syndrome collapsed and died after a period of intense laughter and laughing "fit to burst" was found to cause possible heart rupture or a torn gullet.
A quick intake of breath during laughing can cause inhalation of foreign bodies and can provoke an asthma attack. Laughing can cause incontinence and hernias can occur after laughing.
The researchers concluded laughter can only be beneficial but do add that humor in any form carries a "low risk of harm and may be beneficial."
Comments (34)
many people standing together in a corner and laughing boisterously without any rhyme or reason. Initially, it came to me as a great shocking surprise, for I found no reason for them to laugh at all.
But as the mystery was unfolded, I was given to understand that all of them were the active members of a laughter brigade, who laughed daily as a ritual to provide their lungs with the much-required free flow of oxygen.......
Sometimes we take life way too seriously. We have been taught to run through our lives with such a speed we have no time to laugh.
if you are one of the laughing groups, you can
unblock a good energy flow.
A good number of doctors (before this news on top) proclaimed that laughter chases the toxins out of the body-system, necessary to make one feel greatly refreshed-physically as well as mentally. Depression and anger result in the release of adrenalin into the stomach, which can often lead to grave body disorders.
“Laugh and be merry,
merry Christmas to all .....
Mmm mmm mm
Ou ou mmm
Mmm mmm
Merry Christmas, baby
You surely treat me nice
Merry Christmas, baby
You surely treat me nice
And feel just like I'm livin', livin' in paradise
Now you see, I feel real good tonight
Got music on the radio
Yeah, I feel real good tonight
Got music on the radio
And feel like I wanna kiss you
Underneath the mistletoe
Now listen, Santa came down the chimney
Half past three
With lots of little presents for my baby and me
Merry Christmas, baby
You surely treat me nice
And feel just like I'm livin', livin' in paradise
Merry Christmas, baby
Merry Christmas, baby
Well now, Santa came down the chimney
Half past three
With lots of little presents for my baby and me
Merry Christmas, baby
You surely treat me nice
And feel just like I'm livin', livin' in paradise
Merry Christmas, baby
Oh yeah, I said
Merry Christmas, baby, yeah
(Merry Christmas, baby)
Merry Christmas, baby
(Merry Christmas, baby)
Oh, Merry Christmas, baby, yeah
(Merry Christmas, baby)
And feel just like I'm livin', livin' in paradise
Merry Christmas, baby
B-b-b-b-b, baby
Merry Christmas, baby
B-b-b-b-b, baby
Merry Christmas, baby
B-b-b-b-b, baby
Merry Christmas, baby
A Holly Jolly Christmas
Have a holly, jolly Christmas;
It's the best time of the year
I don't know if there'll be snow
but have a cup of cheer
Have a holly, jolly Christmas;
And when you walk down the street
Say Hello to friends you know
and everyone you meet
Oh ho
the mistletoe
hung where you can see;
Somebody waits for you;
Kiss her once for me
Have a holly jolly Christmas
and in case you didn't hear
Oh by golly
have a holly
jolly Christmas this year
But have a Great Christmas anyway!!
VK............
why??????????
waiting for someone special???????
anyway, been there done that... never going back again!(said by Skynard after a concert long ago)
Time will show!
you sure to go back with your new wife for a new life
Visiting my old folks today, take care!
my dear friend......
red head baby.....merry christmas.....
baby no wacky Stuff .....
only wine baby wine....
merry christmas dear friend.......
you forgot to appreciate luke's labor. give him ten smooches if not twenty.
hi dear friend.......
luke is my heart......
do you think 20 will do....
i am thinking to kill him with
honey,
my suga baby..