Laughter is good medicine: How it fights diseases 20 Articles

by Will Kester

Laughter, the best medicine. Laughter is psychologically and physiologically beneficial to health. It causes the body to release endorphins, expands capillaries for improved circulation, it stimulates increased respi...read more

by Andrew J. Thomas

Laughter, it feels great, but had you ever just considered how good laughter really is for you? Studies suggest that laughter can help do a lot more than merely make you feel good. Below are some reasons why you should tr...read more

by Vicki Hunt

Seeming to always humor others with my quick wit and (of course) my charming personality...it seemed only fitting to use laughter to fight the war against breast cancer too! And by golly, it worked! I am a 14 year breast...read more

by Angie Lewis

Laughter Is A Healer of Medicine - I believe the more we laugh the longer we will live. Laughter is one of the greatest forms of medicine. I think it is great to try and make other people laugh and feel good inside to ...read more

by Joan Schroeder

Laughter is infectious. It grabs any unsuspecting person in its vicinity and entangles it's victims in a concert of laughter. The sometimes skeptical recruit, know not what hit him. Resistance is soon broken and it isn...read more

by Ronald Adams

I'm not sure who said it first, but while I was growing up Reader's Digest posted the news in every issue, every month, every year. Laughter is the best medicine. And there seems to be a growing amount of research and in...read more

by Liomas Thomas

There are rumors of people curing diseases just by laughing. Of course, they laughed long and hard, and it begs the question, would you laugh if you thought you were dying? Perhaps it was their never give up attitude that ...read more

by Tenebris

Laughter remains one of life's delightful mysteries. While we have started to identify some part of what happens during laughter - and the field even has its own term, gelotology - we still understand almost nothing about...read more

by Myrna Writewood

Laughter is good medicin: How it fights diseases When we have a heavy heart we want to laugh to make us feel lighter. We want to be able to laugh, to let other's see that our lives are not as bad as it seems. ...read more

by Mona Gallagher

Laughter is good medicine. Physiological changes occur when we laugh. Laughter helps our blood vessels to function better by reducing the stress on the walls of our blood vessels. Laughing also boosts the heart rate increa...read more

by Ted Sherman

I can't figure out how laughter fights diseases. When someone is dying of some rare tropical disease, does the village witch doctor come bouncing into the hut and do an hour of hilarious stand-up jokes? Maybe his antics ca...read more

by Pinaki Goswami

Answer a simple question:How long has it been since you laughed out loud? Not that silly LOL on the chat.Really laughed out loud.I don't remember my last hearty laugh.If you too feel that it's been ages since you laughed w...read more

by Randa Morris

"Anatomy of Illness" is an excellent book, written by Norman Cousins. This book is based on the true story of how Cousins treated his own very painful illness, by using the premise that "laughter really is the best medicin...read more

by Sarah Eley

Laughter is one of the most infectious things on earth, and therefore may itself be thought of as a disease...of sorts. Obviously, though, this disease is one quite different from that of, for example, Bronchitis or Leucom...read more

by Breanne Rezek

Have you ever been reading a book or watching a movie and suddenly you burst out laughing? Even though your laughter has absolutely nothing to do whatever you may currently be doing, you can't help but laugh uncontrollably...read more

by S. Kumar

Whenever you laugh your heart out, have you realized that you are invoking a self-therapy that helps in keeping you fit-mentally and physically? Given below are some of the benefits. *Depression and Stress: Laugh for 1...read more

by Amy Spainhour

Laughter is a wonderful medicine... I never use to truly believe in that statement until something happened in my life and I was able to witness it. My father has prostate cancer and there is no cure. He has only had it...read more

by Altaf Sahibzada

Laughter The Best Medicine Is it easy to laugh? It seems. We have to distinguish between true laughter and forced one. It is only when one laughs spontaneously that one feels the joy of laughter. There is no price that...read more

by Andrea Hardaker

Six months ago I bumped into an old school friend that I hadn't seen for nearly twenty years. We were in a restaurant with both of our families celebrating birthdays and homecomings. I glanced over and immediately reco...read more

by C Davison

Laughing requires that we relax, and usually stop thinking about what is bothering us, at least temporarily. A good laugh can combat stress, ease depression symptoms, and generally unwind a person. I spent 3 months in ...read more