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Tuesday, June 07, 2005
GFs if you wan to be a happy beautiful lady, laugh more. it will make you look gd and helps you to slim down. Kill 2 birds wif 1 stone. so hope to see you guys laugh more. cheer up
The Strait Times 06-06-05
ATHENS - IF YOU want to burn a few extra calories, laugh.
It is no match for running, cycling or pumping iron but scientists say laughing out loud for 10 to 15 mins/day burns 10 to 40 calories, the amount in a small piece of chocolate, depending on a person's body weight.
'We calculated that this is equal to 2kg/yr if you do it daily,' Dr Maciej Buchowski of Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Nashville, Tennessee, told an obesity conference on Sat.
Laughing makes people feel good and has been described as the best medicine. [tt is very true so listen to them and laugh more]
Dr Buchowski believes he and his colleagues are the 1st to measure how much energy it takes to laugh.
'We discovered that laughter produces energy,' he said.
They recruited 100 students who were frends or couples and measured the energy expenditure of each pair while they watched TV comedy clips in a metabolic chamber.
The sealed room enabled scientists to measure how much energy the laughter produced while a heart monitor tracked their heart rates.
To measure the students' resting metabolic rates, the scientists showed them scenes of the English countryside.
They taped them as they watched 10 mins of comedy interspersed by five mins of the country scenes for more than an hr.
After analysing the tapes, they found tt the male students laughed more than the females. The longest laughter was 40 sec in a min.
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