Everyone enjoys a good laugh, it’s a great way to make you feel good and be happy. Here are fifteen facts about laughing for you to enjoy!

1. A healthy laughter can help you to reduce pain and prevent infections.
2. It has been seen that there is a considerable drop in the levels of stress hormones after a good laughing session.
3. It helps in releasing endorphins which can bring positive changes to the mindset of a person.
4. A heavy laughter brings in much more oxygen to the lungs than normal breathing would do.
5. Laughter reduces the risk of heart diseases!
6. Fifteen minutes of laughing a day can make you lose weight.
7. It has been scientifically proven that laughter can be contagious.
8. Gelotology is the study of laughing and its effects on human body.
9. The maximum laughter happens over social responses which mean that only 10-15 percent of it is actually due to jokes.
10. Laughter is a sound which does not have any language.
11. Humans are not the only creatures who laugh. Animals like dog and cat also laugh!
12. A child of the age of six years laughs about three times more than an adult.
13. Heavy laughter everyday can strengthen your immune system.
14. The average person laughs about thirteen times in a single day.
15. Laughing has  been the cause for death for many people.

Written By Jamie Ward

Jamie Ward is a part-time web developer and blogger. He enjoys writing about religion, technology and space. He is currently studying both computing and religion in his spare time.