{"id":58843,"date":"2013-12-13T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=58843"},"modified":"2013-12-13T22:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:00:06","slug":"laughter-might-not-be-the-best-medicine-after-all-study-finds-it-can-cause-epileptic-fits-ruptured-hearts-and-torn-gulletslaughter-might-not-be-the-best-medicine-after-all-study-finds-it-can-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=58843","title":{"rendered":"Laughter might NOT be the best medicine after all: Study finds it can cause epileptic fits, ruptured hearts and torn gulletsLaughter might NOT be the best medicine after all: Study finds it can cause epileptic fits, ruptured hearts and torn gullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/laughter-people.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58839\" alt=\" \u056e\u056b\u056e\u0561\u0572, \u0567\u057a\u056b\u056c\u0565\u057a\u057f\u056b\u056f \u0576\u0578\u057a\u0561\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/laughter-people.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/laughter-people.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/laughter-people-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/laughter-people-500x287.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Laughter may not be the best medicine after all and could even harm us, new research has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the known benefits of chuckling, for some people it has proven to be more dangerous than expected.<\/p>\n<p>One woman with racing heart syndrome collapsed and died after a giggling fit, say researchers.<\/p>\n<p>And laughing &#8216;fit to burst&#8217; has been found to cause possible heart rupture, a torn gullet and epileptic seizures.<\/p>\n<p>A quick intake of breath during laughing can provoke an asthma attack, while some people have suffered from incontinence and even hernias.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Birmingham and Oxford Universities used data from 1946 to the present day to study the benefits of laughing on the human body.<\/p>\n<p>During one test clowns were sent into hospitals to entertain patients.<\/p>\n<p>And the results showed a dose of &#8216;genuine laughter&#8217; for a whole day could help shed the pounds by burning 2,000 calories.<\/p>\n<p>Tittering was also linked with lowering blood sugar in diabetic patients and reducing arterial wall stiffness, which helps relieve tension.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say their findings challenge the view that laughter can only be beneficial but do add that humour in any form carries a \u2018low risk of harm and may be beneficial\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The paper was published in the Christmas edition of The British Medical Journal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Laughter may not be the best medicine after all and could even harm us,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":58839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[4911],"class_list":["post-58843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-laughter","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}