Contents:
- Medical Video: Weird Ways to Burn 200 Calories
- How many calories are burned when laughing?
- What are the other benefits of laughing?
- You must still apply a healthy life to lose weight
Medical Video: Weird Ways to Burn 200 Calories
Whatever activities we do everyday as long as it keeps our body moving can certainly burn the body's calories, including laughing. This is also supported by many experts who have proven that laughter does provide health benefits for the body.
Hmmm ... who would have thought from a simple and trivial thing like laughing alone could provide healthful benefits, huh! Well if you are among those who do not like to exercise, maybe with you often laughing can help burn the body's calories. Check out the full explanation below.
How many calories are burned when laughing?
Research conducted by Vanderbilt University Medical and published in the International Journal of Obesity has found that laughter is really the best medicine for weight problems. Because, laughter can burn calories by increasing your heart rate by 10-20 percent. Now, when your heart rate increases, your metabolism will also increase which causes calories in your body to burn after someone stops laughing. Besides that, laughter is also proven to increase energy expenditure and air circulation from the body.
The study involved 45 adult couples placed in a metabolic space. Inside the room is equipped with various kinds of equipment such as a heart monitor to measure heart rate and the number of calories burned. While in the room, the researcher gives instructions to participants to watch a comedy film on the TV screen. The result, when the participants laughed is known if oxygen consumption increases so that the body burns calories which makes weight loss.
When you laugh for 10-15 minutes, in fact the body can burn as many as 10-40 calories, but this certainly depends on the weight you have and also the level of your activity. This means, if you laugh for 10-15 minutes per day, then you can lose weight up to 4 kilograms for a year. Especially if you are also actively doing other physical activities, then weight loss will be more effective and significant.
What are the other benefits of laughing?
According to several studies, besides burning calories, laughter can also improve the quality of your health in several ways:
- A study conducted by Loma Linda University found that laughter increases immunoglobulin levels by 14 percent which serves to help the body to visit disease.
- In addition, according to a study conducted by Johns Hopkins Medical School, laughing in the classroom can increase brain capacity when studying so that it allows someone to get good grades during the exam.
- While a study conducted by the University of California (UCLA) found that laughter helps a person control and reduce pain.
- Recent research also shows that laughter can be contagious. This is because the brain responds to laughter and connects facial muscles in preparation to join the expression of joy. So it is not surprising, if you see other people laughing you also reflexively join in laughing because they are carried away by the excitement felt by others.
You must still apply a healthy life to lose weight
Even though laughter is proven to burn calories and lose weight, you cannot make laughter the main reference for losing weight. Because laughter can indeed burn the body's calories, but not significant enough to cause weight loss. Especially if you are not balanced with daily exercise routines and a balanced diet.
Therefore, you must continue to adopt a healthy lifestyle by exercising regularly, maintaining food intake, stopping bad habits that endanger health, and so forth. Don't forget to laugh that spreads positive things around, so that your life becomes more fun and happy so you can avoid stress.
