"Is laughter the best medicine?"

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A good laugh may be good for your heart. A team of Maryland medical researchers found that people with heart disease are 40% less likely to laugh in humorous situations than those with healthy hearts.

The study of 300 people—half with heart disease problems—gauged how healthy people and those with heart disease differed in their response where humor was expected. People with heart disease were much less likely even to recognize the humor. They also laughed less, even in positive situations. And they generally showed more anger and hostility than people with healthy hearts.

I don’t know about you, but it sounds like to me laughter really is the best medicine. It sounds like God not only made apples for us to eat to keep the doctor away, but also made us to laugh every day to keep the doctor away.

So when was the last time you laughed? I mean, really laughed? A deep-down, belly laugh?

Don’t take life so seriously, and laugh a lot as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living today.

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