Averages<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Number of times a child laughs each day, on average = 400<\/p>\n
\u2022 Number of times an adult laughs each day, on average = 15<\/p>\n
\u2022 Number of Americans with stress-related insomnia = 1 in 5<\/p>\n
\u2022 Number on any given day who need more sleep = 45 million<\/p>\n
\u2022 Percentage decrease in average sleep time, since 1900 = 20<\/p>\n
Leadership, Fall, 1993, p. 129<\/p>\n
Average Laughs per Day<\/b><\/p>\n
While the average child laughs 150 times a day, say researchers at the University of Michigan, the average adult laughs only 15 times.<\/p>\n
Youth Worker Update, Signs of the Times, August, 1993, p. 6<\/p>\n
Laughter The Best Medicine<\/b><\/p>\n
In The Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient, Norman Cousins tells of being hospitalized with a rare, crippling disease. When he was diagnosed as incurable, Cousins checked out of the hospital. Aware of the harmful effects that negative emotions can have on the body, Cousins reasoned the reverse was true. So he borrowed a movie projector and prescribed his own treatment, consisting of Marx Brothers films and old \u201cCandid Camera\u201d reruns. <\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t take long for him to discover that 10 minutes of laughter provided two hours of pain-free sleep. Amazingly, his debilitating disease was eventually reversed. After the account of his victory appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Cousins received more than 3000 letters from appreciative physicians throughout the world. <\/p>\n
Today in the Word, Moody Bible Institute, 12\u201318-91<\/p>\n
Aids Digestion<\/b><\/p>\n
Laughter improves any meal\u2014experts even say it aids digestion. sk everyone in your family to contribute five jokes or riddles on slips of paper. Keep them in a jar on the table and during dinner take turns drawing them out and reading them. – Paul Lewis<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Laughing at Self<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused. – Habib Bourguiba<\/p>\n
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