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Chapter 15

Laughter is the Best

Medicine for Your Health



•What makes you laugh?•Do you like to laugh?•How do you feel after you laugh?



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cardiologist

Laughter may help protect you against

a heart attack, according to a recentstudy by cardiologists at the University

of Maryland Medical Center.



impairmentMental stress is associated with

impairment of the endothelium, the

protective barrier lining our blood

vessels.



inflammatory

This can cause a series of inflammatory

reactions that lead to fat and cholesterol

build-up in the coronary arteries.



questionnaireOne questionnaire had a series

multiple-choice answers to find out

how much or how little people laughed

in certain situations.



hostility

The second used true or falseanswers to measure anger and

hostility.



implication

The ability to laugh may have

important implications in societies

such as the United States where heart

disease remains the number one killer.



hearty

Exercising, not smoking, and eating

foods low in saturated fat will reduce

the risk of heart disease. Perhapsregular, hearty laughter should be

added to the list.



incorporate

It may be possible to incorporate

laughter into our daily activities justas we do with other heart-healthy

activities.



Sentences to remember



Can a laugh every day keep theheart attack away?

Sentences to remember 1



The old saying that ‘laughter is

the best medicine’ appears to betrue when it comes to protecting

your heart.




People with heart disease were

40 percent less likely to laughcompared to people of the same

age without heart disease .




It may be possible to incorporatelaughter into our daily activities

just as we do with other heart-healthy activities.




We could try to find ways to takeourselves less seriously.




Cloze Quiz



Can a laugh every day keep the heart (1)a away?Maybe so. Laughter, along with an active sense of (2)h , may help protect you against a heart attack,according to a recent study by (3)c at the

University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Thestudy, which is the first to indicate that (4)l mayhelp prevent heart (5)d , found that people withheart disease were 40 (6)p less likely to laugh in

a (7)v of situations compared to people of thesame age (8)w heart disease.

(1)attack (2)humor(3)cardiologists

(4)laughter

(5)disease

(6)percent(7)variety

(8)without



(9)medicine (10)protecting

(11)heart

“The old saying that „laughter is the best (9)m ,‟ definitely appears to be true when it comes to(10)p your heart,” says Michael Miller, M.D. “Wedon‟t know yet why laughing protects the (11)h ,but we know that mental stress is associated with(12)i of the endothelium, the protective barrierlining our blood vessels. This can cause a series of inflammatory reactions that lead to fat and cholesterol

(13)b in the coronary arteries and ultimately to aheart attack.”

(12) impairment (13) build-up

h ili



(14) coronary(15) situations (17) significant

(16) hostility

(18) angerIn the study, researchers compared the humor responsesof 300 people. Half of the participants had either suffereda heart attack or undergone (14)c artery bypasssurgery. The other 150 did not have heart disease. One

questionnaire had a series of multiple-choice answers tofind out how much or how little people laughed in certain(15)s , and the second one used true or falseanswers to measure anger and (16)h . Miller said

that the most (17)s study finding was that“people with heart disease responded less humorously toeveryday life situations.” They generally laughed less,even in positive situations, and they displayed more(18)a and hostility.



“The ability to laugh—either naturally or as(19)l behavior— may have important(20)i in societies such as the U.S. where heartdisease remains the number one killer,” says Miller. “We know that exercising, not smoking, and eatingfoods low in saturated fat will reduce the risk of heart

disease. Perhaps regular, hearty laughter should beadded to the list.”

(19)learned(20)implications

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