Laughter may help lower your risk of diabetes and heart disease, a small new study suggests. Researchers studied 20 high-risk diabetics with high cholesterol and high blood pressure. They found that those who laughed for thirty minutes per day--at a TV show they found funny, for example--had higher levels of "good" cholesterol than those who hadn't laughed. The group also had lower levels of a common inflammatory marker than those who hadn't taken part in the study.
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