Laughter is the best medicine

Did you know that apparently a child laughs on average 300 times a day whereas adults only manage a meager 15 times?

The health benefits of laughter are well known, but a surprising thing that people might not be aware of is that the increased levels of immunity gained from a good old rib tickling, git busting laugh, last for up to 12 hours! So not only is it fun at the time, but the feel good factor keeps on going.

Which is all well and good if you feel like laughing, but what about when you don’t? I keep a supply of funny emails which I can trot out whenever I’m feeling down, and no matter how bad it seems, they always make me giggle. In fact I’ve just looked through them again and laughed ’til I cried, so that’s my immune system fired up until teatime

Here’s some of the funnies - hope you get 12 hours worth out of them too:

Letters to the editor 

The government tells us that we are eating too many pies and dying of heart disease, then in the next breath they’re telling us we are living too long and there’ll be no more pension money left for us. I wish they’d make their bloody minds up.

John

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‘Alton Towers - Where the magic never ends’, or so the commercial says.  Imagine my disappointment when it closed at 7.30.

Colum Hill

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I am married to a Taiwanese lady, and people often ask me if she was a mail-order bride. I find this very insensitive. The Royal Mail lose around
2 million letters and parcels each year, and to suggest that I would trust the delivery of my wife to them is insulting in the extreme. She was sent by DHL next day delivery.

L Palmer, London
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The government says that there are nearly 50,000 people with HIV in Britain , a third of whom do not even know that they have it. Is it just me, or is it a bit harsh that the government know and haven’t told the poor sods?

John Campbell, e-mail

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What’s all this nonsense about that 66-year-old Romanian woman being the world’s oldest mum? My mum’s 77. Beat that. Thomas J

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