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Palma de Mallorca/Madrid, February 12 (efesalud.com). “It is said that while babies, boys and girls can laugh up to 400 times a day, with an average of 300, the most smiling and blissful adult does not usually exceed a hundred, and their average is located in about 25 dental exhibitions ”, Says Dr. Juan B. Soriano Ortiz, a research epidemiologist at the Pneumology Service of Madrid's La Princesa Hospital.
"Good Morning. I have a passion: to transmit population evidence about health risks to promote preventive attitudes in people, at the individual level. This is already our ninth installment in the EFESalud Videoblogs Connects to the Epidemiology of health risks. After referring to tobacco, sedentary lifestyle, unsafe sex, high blood pressure, alcohol, drug abuse, cholesterol and triglycerides, and diabetes, you will allow me in this ninth and final videoblog on this series to change gears. I would like to talk about laughter as a health factor.
Doctors are usually blamed for being denialists and even castrators, in the sense of eliminating pleasure in an absolute way: do not eat this, do not drink excessively, do not be sedentary, ... And instead we do not sufficiently promote health and good habits. But in general a positive attitude in life, and in particular laughing and practicing laughter, should be recommendations to treat many diseases and to prevent many more. There is already abundant scientific evidence of the benefits of laughter
A meta-analysis of ten randomized controlled trials of laughter and humour interventions on depression, anxiety and sleep quality in adults was published early in 2019. It was conducted according to the guidelines of the Cochrane Collaboration, and comprised 814 participants. It showed that these interventions significantly decreased adults' depression, anxiety, and improved their sleep quality. The results of subgroup analysis showed that depression benefits more from long-term laughter intervention.
In babies, the first laugh appears in around age three and a half months. Actually, by ultrasound it can be seen that the fetus already begins to sketch smiles in the womb during pregnancy. But it is not a conscious activity, but an automatic reflex.
Around the month of life, the baby begins to smile at a series of external stimuli, such as the voice of his mother. Likewise, a certain sound or the face of someone familiar, or simply a stranger who is pleasant to her, can also cause a smile.
Around three months, the first laughs appear out loud. Laughter is a sign of the child's maturation. And in fact she will not stop laughing ... until he/she becomes an adult.
It is said that while a child can laugh up to 400 times a day, with an average of 300, the happiest adult does not exceed 100 times a day, and the average is at 25. And laughter is a VERY serious thing.
In the so-called Blue Zones, where the WHO detects an excess of centenarians, they have had to add a vertex to the triangle of good diet, exercise and not smoking. The rhombus is made by social relationships, believing in any religion, and laughter. Think that it is rare for someone 100 years old to be a crook, and in most centenarians good humor and the joy of living dominates. They enjoy everything.
Dr Patch Adams, master of laughter therapy, dedicated me his book Gesundheit! with a: "Be silly everyday." Sometimes I forget, but today is today.
Remember: Think of yourself, others and the planet. Prevention is the best medicine, and prevention is better than cure; something that has been known since Hippocrates. Practice by example, and laugh and make those around you laugh. Or at least, smile please. As the exercise or physical activity make a minimum of half an hour to smile every day. Good information on time is essential. Remember: PREVENTION IS LIFE".
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