{"id":546904,"date":"2010-04-29T03:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/29\/is-laughing-a-workout\/"},"modified":"2010-04-29T03:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T07:29:00","slug":"is-laughing-a-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546904","title":{"rendered":"Is Laughing a Workout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/happiness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Happiness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fitness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/how-i-stay-fit\/\" rel=\"tag\">How I Stay Fit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/04\/laughing-ist.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Laughing until it hurts can certainly feel like a workout &#8212; especially in your abs &#8212; but does it actually do anything for your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=love%20handles\">love handles<\/a>? That&#8217;s what researchers from Loma Linda University in California set out to find when they began studying the effect a good session of the giggles has on the body. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/%20http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/04\/100426113058.htm\" >Chief researcher Lee Berk and colleagues studied 14 individuals<\/a>, testing their blood and blood pressure before and after movie clips. One clip showed a violent excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120815\/\" ><em>Saving Private Ryan<\/em><\/a>, while the other showed comedy stand-up routines. <\/p>\n<p>They discovered that while the violent clip had no apparent influence on appetite, watching the funny one did &#8212; it helped decrease appetite-suppressing hormone leptin while increasing appetite-boosting hormone ghrelin. This doesn&#8217;t mean participants were hungrier &#8212; rather, the clip helped strike a more harmonious balance between the two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=hormones\">hormones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/29\/is-laughing-a-workout\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Is Laughing a Workout?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/29\/is-laughing-a-workout\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19457293\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/29\/is-laughing-a-workout\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Happiness, Fitness, How I Stay Fit Laughing until it hurts can certainly feel like a workout &#8212; especially in your abs &#8212; but does it actually do anything for your love handles? That&#8217;s what researchers from Loma Linda University in California set out to find when they began studying the effect a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}