There is an English saying,"Laughter is the best medicine".Until recently,few people took the saying seriously.Now,however,doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it had on human body.They have found that laughter really can improve people's health.
有一句英语说,“笑是最好的药”.直到最近,几乎没有人认真地对待讲话.而现在,医生已经开始了调查笑和 在人体身上所带来的影响.他们已经发现了微笑确实能改善人的健康.
Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body.People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart,blood pressure,breathing and muscles.It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise.It increases blood pressure,the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face,the stomach,and even the feet.
进行了在学习中对人的影响的实验.在医生检查人们看了有趣的电影时他们的心脏,心脏,呼吸和肌肉.发现了笑和做身体运动有同样的影响.它增加了血压,心跳和呼吸；它也使几组脸上的,胃里的甚至脚上的肌肉工作.
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body.In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs.The group the tolerated the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program.The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both stress and pain.
其他的实验证明了微笑有减少身体疼痛的作用.在一个实验中医生在一组在听无线电节目的学生中制造疼痛.这个组在看有趣的节目的时候最长时间地容忍了疼痛.为什么会笑的原因好像是它有助于了一种在脑中的减轻压力和痛苦的化学成分.
As a result of these discoveries,some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics,in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh.They have found that even if their patients do not really fell like laughing,making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.
由于这些发现,一些在美国的医生举办了笑诊所,在那里面他们通过鼓励给病人笑来帮助改善他们的状况.他们甚至已经可以发现病人是否真正地进入了笑的状态,使他们微笑已经足够制造与使他们笑的相似的有益的效果.