Researchers have found that laughter has important health benefits because it can relieve stress by releasing endorphins and also by reducing levels of stress hormones such as adrenaline. In addition, laughter can help to clean out the lungs and to exercise a large number of muscles and organs in the body. Non-stop laughing for an hour would burn 500 calories. It is even claimed that laughing can make you live longer. However, for that to happen, Norwegian Sven Svebak says that the outward signs of cheerfulness are less important than a sense of humour. A sense of humour is more of an attitude- an ability to see the funny side of things in all situations. A sense of humour is not genetic, it is something we develop and work on with others. This may be why, Svebak suggests, country people have a bettee-developed sense of humour than people in the city: they have closer communities.
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