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Your Tax Dollars At Play

In an item entitled “One Funny Workout” comes this, from the October 2004 Shape magazine:

Laughing hard for just 20 seconds doubles your heart rate for about a minute afterward, research at Stanford University in California shows. That’s the same result you’d get from 15 minutes on a stationary bicycle or 10 minutes of strenuous rowing (though you won’t burn as many calories.) Laughter can be an effective “mini-workout,” says psychiatrist William F. Fry, M.D., a leading researcher on laughter’s health benefits. Laughing exercises not just your heart and lungs, Fry says, but the muscles in your chest, abdomen, shoulders, neck, face and scalp as well.

We find it disturbing that we have muscles in our scalp.