Weight loss doesn't sound or feel like a laughing matter. But a new
study from Vanderbilt University reports that genuine
laughter, the kind that lasts about 10 to 15
minutes, burns the same number of calories found in a medium square of
chocolate.
That translates to about 50 calories, which,
if done everyday, can result in about 4 pounds of weight loss at the end
of the
year (assuming everything else stays the
same).
Considering that laughter also produces natural
endorphins, those "feel good" brain chemicals that lower your blood
pressure,
decrease your stress and improve your mood,
you have nothing to lose, except maybe a little weight and stress,
right? And
if that doesn't sound like a bargain, at
least you can laugh your way through a daily square of chocolate and
even the score.
