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For me . . . it is the announcement that The Journal of Primary Prevention has accepted for publication our Prairie View research study "Workplace Laughter and Personal Efficacy". They anticipate the release in March 2007, which is sooner than we think.

Yea . . . Thank you Heidi for your persistance and constant vigel in carrying the torch to the finish line. We are on our way!!!! Yea . . . Ho-ho-ho, Ha-ha-ha, hee-hee-hee . . . we are nearly there!

To learn more about our research study click here.

Other Good Medicine can be found in the article,"Stop Being so Serious -- Your Life Depends on it". Here is an excerpt.

Nearly 85 percent of people who visit their primary healthcare physicians do so because of a stress-related disease. More people are on anti-depressants than at any other time in the history of medicine. And it's probably no surprise that stress has proven to be deadly to the immune system. This according to Dr. Lee Berk, associate professor in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at Loma Linda University in California.

In an increasingly stressful world, what is one to do? Laugh, apparently. That's funny, you say? Well, studies have shown that it's no laughing matter -- or perhaps it actually is. Laughing is at the heart of a serious issue about bio-translation -- how your biology translates the good stuff in life, says Dr. Berk.

"There are chemical mechanisms of communication between the brain, central nervous system, hormone system, and immune system, and how they all talk to each other," he says. If you go for a root canal, you experience sweaty palms and nervousness. "But the reciprocal for positive emotions is very true also," he says. "When we experience the anticipation of positive events, we benefit from that."

Click here for the complete article. Or for more medical researh on laughter click here.

Until next time . . . Laugh yourselves silly. You'll feel better!

Judy                                          back to E-zine list

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Laughter is good for the soul and good for business too!