Laugh and Lose Weight?

A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa...

‘The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?’

After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, ‘Wedding Cake?’

Go ahead…..laugh! Really loud!!

This is actually nothing that a lot of us didn’t at least suspect previously, but now, study after study are proving that your positive emotions actually play a larger role in your overall health than was previously known. It may sound hard to believe, but you can actually laugh your way to fitness. Don’t get me wrong – you can’t eat whatever you want and expect to lose weight just by listening to a few jokes.

What you can do, however, is make a concerted effort to improve your health by channeling laughter in the right way to help flood your body with positive chemicals (produced by your brain) that do make it easier to lose weight. Imagine the positive benefits that can be achieved simply by loving life, enjoying a laugh, while eating right and getting some exercise.

And remember this...your body doesn’t know the difference between real laughter and fake.

So right now, start fake laughing….go ahead….he he he ha ha ha…..think of something funny, like the time your sibling shot milk out his nose. Remember his look of surprise? How you doubled over and couldn't breathe? He he he he he.

Are you feeling a little smile come to your lips? Go ahead and widen it and he he he ha ha ha some more.

When you begin to feel the smile come naturally, feel a shift in your energy and a clarity of your focus, those are the yummy feel good hormones flooding thru your body. Now... that really is something to giggle about!!!