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Laughing Revs Your Metabolism

Researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee found in laughter studies that participants "burned 20 percent more calories when laughing as compared to not laughing at all." This is confirmed by lead researcher Maciej Buchowski, director of bionutrition at Vanderbilt, who calculated with his team that if an individual laughs for approximately 10 to 15 minutes per day, they could lose almost five pounds in one year, without changing anything else.

Laughing Revs Your Metabolism

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