Laughter Healthy for Diabetes Patients

Watching a Funny Video for 30 Minutes Per Day May Help High-Risk

Type 2 Diabetes Patients Improve Heart Health

April 17, 2009 -- Laughter could have serious heart benefits for people with diabetes, a new study shows. The study comes from Lee Berk, DrPH, MPH, of Loma Linda University and Stanley Tan, MD, PhD, of Oak Crest Health Research Institute in Loma Linda, Calif.

They studied 20 high-risk type 2 diabetes patients who also had high blood pressure (hypertension) and high cholesterol levels (hyperlipidemia). After only two months, the patients in the laughter group had a better HDL ("good") cholesterol level than the patients in the comparison group.

Four months into the study, the laughter group had lower blood levels of certain inflammatory chemicals.

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Article source: American Physiological Society's 122nd annual meeting, held at Experimental Biology 2009, New Orleans, April 18-22, 2009.  Lee Berk, DrPH, MPH, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, Calif.  News release, American Physiological Society. © 2009 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved.

P.S. Guess they don't know about us -- could use just 15-minutes of daily purposeful aerobic laughter without humor. Bet we could beat their numbers in half the time.

Until next time remember to laugh yourself silly . . . you'll feel better!

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