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There is an English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the influences it has on the human body. They have found that laughter can really make people healthier.
Tests were carried out to study the influences of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar influences to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing. It also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial (有益的).
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce pain on the body. In one test doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programmes. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemical in the brain which reduce both stress and pain.
As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics (诊所), in which they try to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. Because of good influences, such clinics are very popular with all kinds of patients. Doctors have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial influences similar to those caused by laughter.
Since laughter is so effective, try to laugh as much as you can. Believe it will do much good to your health. If you are not used to laughing in front of others, you can also smile as often as possible to others because it can have almost the same influence.
Title | Laughter |
Theme | Laughter can improve our 1.. |
The recent medical discoveries. | ·Doctors have studied what influences laughter has on people. ·Doctors have found people’s health can be improved by 2.. |
The 3. of laughter | ·Laughter can increase people’s blood pressure, heart beating and breathing. ·Laughter can also exercise the muscles of a few parts of one’s body which 4. the face, the stomach and the feet. ·Stress and pain are 5. because laughter can help to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain. |
The use that doctors make of laughter | ·Doctors set up laughter clinics, where patients are 6. to laugh to improve their condition. ·If patients don’t really like laughing, they can smile because smile can make 7. influences to laughter. |
The writer’s 8. | ·Try to laugh as often as 9.. ·10. much to others if you don’t like to laugh in public |