And a continuation of the medicinal laughter conversation. . .
I stumbled across blog, Diabetes Mine - A gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes.
And the lead story today is this:
Giggles for Diabetes, As Directed
I’ve written about this before, but can never resist additional evidence that laughter is the best medicine.
This time a researcher from the Foundation for the Advancement of International Science actually tested the hypothesis on people with diabetes — to see whether laughter could influence blood to see whether laughter could influence blood glucose level. On one day he took 19 diabetes patients to “a monotonous lecture (40 minutes) without humorous content.” The next day he took them to a 40-minute comedy show. The patients ate the same meals on both days. Blood glucose levels were lower after the comedy day than after the lecture. Ha, ha! See?! A little fun goes a long way.
Researcher Kazuo Murakami concludes that his results, published in Diabetes Care, “suggest the importance of daily opportunities for laughter in patients with diabetes.” (Timesonline.com)
So, let’s put that list of comedies together and plan a movie night!
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Now that is very interesting, kbird. I shudder to think what my shugga would be if I did not spend a sizeable part of the day giggling like a school girl at one thing or another!
Almost all movies make me laugh, a few that I think would make most people laugh are:
Smoke Signals
Krippendorf’s Tribe
Barber Shop
Bollywood/Hollywood
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Polish Wedding
Elling
The Parent Trap (original with Hayley Mills or more recent with Lindsay Lohan)
Anything with Lindsay Lohan
I am sure I will think of more.
I find it hard to pick favorites but these are definitely among mine:
And to add to Chocolate Ink’s list of great Cary Grant comedies:
My Big Fat Greek Wedding makes me giggle just thinking about it! I still think they got the Windex idea from my German father’s obsession with Lysol…
Other funny movies: Princess Bride, Singing in the Rain, Christmas Story, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
The Greeks invented Germany, you know.
Do you think Netflix will notice a flurry of activity emanating from Eat 4 Today?
Could we have a movie-time — possibly on a weekend. When even though we are in different time zones, we could all watch a comedy at the same time? I really think it would be great if we could watch the same movie together.
kb, I think you are a beautiful optimist
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The logistics of everybody agreeing not only on a movie, but a night, amid differing tastes, schedules and time zones might be ambitious, but what if each of us when we do see a funny movie, do a little review of it here?
What about the possibility of pulling out of Iraq, letting Iran invade and lose resources fighting their own kind,
and then come in and mop up the dregs?
Trouble is, Iran has been there, done that. It cost them at least 300,000 dead and at least 500,000 wounded. I don’t think they want to do that again.