Health & Nutrition Facts for Bodybuilders

Have you laughed at all today? Do you know the last time you laughed? How about laughed out loud. LOL. How about laughing while watching a great TV show? Can you even remember the last time you laughed? Catherine Kalamis, in “Laugh Your Way to Health” (Choice magazine, March 2001), said that a 10-minute bout of laughing can have the following effects: As the person laughs, carbon dioxide is driven out of the body and replaced by oxygen-rich air, providing physical and mental freshness. Laughing can produce anti-inflammatory agents that can aid back pain or arthritis. Laughing encourages muscles to relax and exercises muscles all over the body, from the scalp to the legs. Laughing reduces levels of cortisol, the stress hormone. It is also thought that laughter may possibly aid immune system responses, (though the evidence for that is primarily anecdotal). Laughing exercises facial muscles to prevent sagging. Laughing boosts the production of “feel-good” endorphin hormones. Gigg...