There are probably hundreds of ways to lose weight - both standard, like various diets and exercise, and non-standard. The latter include... laughter. The author of the technique is an employee of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (USA) Matei Bachovsky.

He presented his research at the European Congress on Obesity..

Professor Bachowski and his colleagues suggested that when laughing, the human body releases a certain amount of energy.. But how to check it? 100 pairs of student volunteers were invited to conduct the experiment, of which 45 pairs were close friends.. The subjects were specifically told that the purpose of the study would be to test the emotional reaction to watching various videos, according to the online publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net They were then locked up in what looked like a hotel room, which was actually a metabolic chamber.. Sensors were located there that determined how much oxygen was inhaled and how much carbon dioxide was exhaled by the person inside - this is how energy consumption is measured.. In addition, equipment was installed in the room that tracks the heart rate and records all sounds..

Volunteers were seated in chairs in front of TVs, forbidding them to move or talk.. First, scientists needed to find out what the metabolic parameters of these people are in a relaxed state.. Therefore, all the volunteers were shown the landscape of the countryside in England. This picture, as conceived by the experimenters, was not supposed to cause any violent reaction..

Then, for an hour, a small subject was shown successively alternating excerpts from a comedy and calm landscapes, for example, with wandering sheep.. Of course, when shown funny passages, the subjects laughed.

" Students burned 20 percent more calories while laughing. Then we tried to figure out what would happen if someone laughed for 10 or 15 minutes.. per day, and found that in this case, up to 50 calories would be burned, depending on the volume of the body and the intensity of laughter"

According to scientists, the number of calories that help burn a quarter of an hour of non-stop laughter corresponds to the energy value of an average chocolate bar..

“According to our calculations, if you have fun every day, you can lose up to 2 kg in a year,” says Bachowski..

However, there are many nuances in this method of losing weight..

First, how to cause laughter itself?

" “And specially induced laughter is regulated by a completely different part of the brain.”.

That is, if you laugh on purpose, imitate laughter, no calorie burning will occur.! But even if they make you laugh, telling, for example, jokes or offering to watch scenes from comedies, laugh continuously for 15 minutes. not so easy. Don't believe me - try it yourself! As a rule, if a person is funny, at first he laughs very intensely, but gradually the laughter reflex fades... We are characterized by rather instant bursts of laughter when we hear or see something funny. In addition, Bachowski warns, you need to laugh out loud, otherwise the method will not work..

Secondly, even if by some miracle you manage to force yourself to sincerely laugh daily for a quarter of an hour a day without a break (and you are unlikely to be able to do more), the promised 2 kg per year is a minuscule!

Suppose this method of weight loss is suitable for a model who is already on all kinds of diets and does not get out of the gym. For her, an extra couple of kilos is a disaster.. And if you suffer from real obesity, and you need to lose not two, but ten, fifteen, or even twenty kilograms? Then the method proposed by Professor Bachowski is definitely not for you.. Be that as it may, no one has yet come up with more effective diets and physical education for getting rid of excess weight.!

Irina Shlionskaya.

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