Laughter Is Truly The Best Medicine

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Laughing is a reaction to certain stimuli. Traditionally, it is considered a visual expression of happiness, or an inward feeling of joy. It may ensue from hearing a joke, being tickled, or other stimuli.

Laughter is a part of human behavior regulated by the brain, helping humans clarify their intentions insocial interaction and providing an emotional context to conversations.  Laughter is used as a signal for being part of a group — it signals acceptance and positive interactions with others. Laughter is sometimes seen as contagious, and the laughter of one person can itself provoke laughter from others as a positive feedback. This may account in part for the popularity of laugh tracks in situation comedy television shows.

Laughter is anatomically caused by the epiglottis constricting the larynx.

The study of humor and laughter, and its psychological and physiological effects on the human body, is called gelotology.

Laughter Is Truly The Best Medicine

By Laurie J. Brenner

If there’s one thing I have to admit about my mother is that she was always right about this: Laughter Is The Best Medicine.  Continue reading

Men’s Health Misconceptions: the Top Mens Health Facts Nearly All People Get Wrong

Male Health Fallacies: the Top 10 Mens Health Facts Nearly All People Get Wrong

Male Health: it’s such an important issue in recent times, with many men worried about their own health, as well as some men simply not caring about their own health in any way. With so many details these days, there are a great deal of misconceptions about male health, and in this particular blog post we look to dispel a handful of those fallacies.

Male Health Lie 10 – Eating Fewer Calories Will Cause Someone to Burn Fat

If you feel that simply lowering the amount of calories you eat will enable people to permanently get rid of your excessive fat, you’re sadly mistaken. Instead, you should examine the Kind of foods you eat. For instance, you might reduce your calories, but have those calories from chocolate. So you’ll have no energy, a slow metabolism, and you’ll have uncontrollable desire for food. Aside from that, you may have a tendency to lose muscle rather than fat. Instead, eat a good amount of healthy meals and snacks that make you feel full for a long time and provide a great deal of good nutrition. This should keep your energy level and metabolism up, and prevent you craving junk food.

Mens Health Lie 9 – Knuckle Cracking & Arthritis

The cracking sound which you hear is frequently just the release of gas bubbles or even ligaments or tendons moving on the bones. No evidence has been found that means that the habit of cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis later in life. However, in all probability it will annoy most people, so stop doing it anyway. Continue reading

Johnny Weir Will Return to the Ice, Tweets His Announcement

Not that I was holding my breath or anything, but I encouraging folks to do what they love, and do what they do well. Johnny Weir has been spread all over the media for every reason but being an olympic hopeful lately. He needs to channel those outfits and sass into his skates and I believe gold may be in his future. Focus Johnny, focus!!

With this above Tweet, figure skater Johnny Weir announced his return on competitive skating, with his goal to compete in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Continue reading

Older Gay Men Can Boost Mental Health by Being Married

This may be a good incentive to stop being the bar slut (just sayin’) and keep one of those one night stands and make a long term relationship out of him.  Enders

Older gay men could avoid mental health complications by being married, according to a study published in theAmerican Journal of Public Health. 


Gay and bisexual men over the age of 50 report feeling stress from aging, discrimination based on their sexual orientation, and having lost many friends from the AIDS epidemic. Other age-related stress factors, such as financial status and independence, also affect their mental health. However, having a committed and legally recognized spouse or domestic partner has proven to be a mitigating factor in such stresses.

“This study shines a light on the mental health of a generation of gay men who survived the early years of the AIDS crisis and came of age on the heels of the gay rights movement,” Williams Institute scholar and researcher Richard G. Wight, Ph.D., said in a statement Thursday. “Whether legal marriage benefits mental health within same-sex couples in the way it has been proven to benefit different-sex couples deserves much more empirical attention, particularly given that same-sex marriage is not available in most states and was only briefly available in California in 2008.”

The study suggests that public health agencies attempt more targeted mental health campaigns for gay and bisexual men over 50.