Laughing Clubs

As they say, 'laughter is the best medicine', laughing can be an excellent stress buster at all times. In fact the recent years have seen many new age gurus who believe in the slogan, "Slim Down While You Laugh It Up!" Many laughing clubs have been established in the last decades with the sole objective of weight loss without stress.

Though many people have passed it off as mere farce, laughing can indeed play a deciding role in weight loss management. The laughing clubs have a record of helping many of their members in combating the threat and perils of obesity and overweight.

Laughter & Weight Loss

In the laughing clubs, the members burst out in generous and natural spurts of laughter that can prove to be very beneficial to their eight loss strategy. The second most important supplement to laughing would be the fast walking that they undertake. Laughter can induce weight loss; it is no laughing matter as the following points would tell you. Laughter,

• Lowers the levels of certain stress hormones.
• Enhances the immune system.
• Sometimes lead to hiccupping that can dislodge mucus plugs from the respiratory tract.
• Allows you a full body workout (the diaphragm and abdominal, respiratory, facial and back muscles).
• Always give you an aerobic workout
• Invokes feelings of happiness and joy as it gets the positive endorphins pumping
• Encourages creative thoughts
• Evokes the spirit to bond with your fellow human, and can improve your self image

Laughter- The Best Medicine:

Humor and laughter are invaluable gifts of nature to human beings; though we end up doing things that are completely contradictory to it by being depressed or by losing our cool almost often. But the 'laughter clubs' where the members assemble and laugh aloud is a welcome trend that can spread the knowledge on the medical benefits of laughing.

Laughter always has a contagious and catching effect. It is believed that when you laugh heartily, the effect can boost up your happiness and health tremendously. Well, it is true that a good hearty laugh can help:

• reduce tension and stress
• lower your blood pressure level
• elevate your mood
• boost up your immune system
• enhance the functioning of your brain
• protect and shield the heart
• ensure you guaranteed relaxation
• provides you a feeling of happiness.

Laughing loosens up the body and minimizes problems associated with high blood pressure, strokes, arthritis, and ulcers. Historically, research has shown that laughter can help you keep off distressing emotions like depression, anger, anxiety, and stress that are related to heart disease, as laughter is found to reduce the risk of heart diseases. You can certainly maintain your weight if the emotions and the ailments related to obesity is kept at bay. Laughing thus can have a role in realizing your weight loss target.