Laughing as exercise

margaretturk

On Dr. Oz today he said you can burn 50 calories for every 15 minutes of laughing. I added this to my exercise list if nothing else to remind me the importance of laughing.:laugh:
May you laugh often and well.

BrianSharpe

You're kidding........

GGDaddy

I usually log 10 calories for a mild chuckle...

DavPul

I only have two questions: who laughs for 15 minutes a day and how many extra calories can I log if I laugh while holding on to a $400 handrail?

BeachIron

Please tell me that this is a troll post

_SABOTEUR_

I'll burn at least 150 cals when he dies then.

wolfchild59

I hate that quack.

jofjltncb6

Wait, what?

cmriverside

uh...just upping my post count.


And how is this "fitness and exercise" related?


Sounds more Chit Chatting




...for those who feel like "Report Post"

Otterluv

Please tell me that this is a troll post

It said "Dr. Oz says...", so it must be and should probably be moved to Chit Chat.

MB_Positif

Honestly, I laugh a LOT because I am super silly and laugh at my own ridiculous jokes as wall as nearly everything anyone else says...but I honestly consider this part of my daily activity...so no.

margaretturk

I just laughed for 5 minutes reading your replies. I guess that earns me an extra 16 calories to go splurge.:laugh: :drinker:

tlou5

Cute

3dogsrunning

I hate that quack.

How many calories does quacking burn?

MelMoly

I usually log 10 calories for a mild chuckle...

yes yes yes... I chuckle often... how many for a snort?

ShellyBell999

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Dr. Oz :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Mslmesq

On Dr. Oz today he said you can burn 50 calories for every 15 minutes of laughing. I added this to my exercise list if nothing else to remind me the importance of laughing.:laugh:
May you laugh often and well.

Thumbs up!

cmcollins001

I was laughing a lot when I got fat....or was that making fun of others...yeah...making fun of other and then laughing at them... a lot...a whole lot.

_abbie

I laugh when I clean my house.

jenilla1

Is he talking 15 minutes of non-stop, hard-core, lunatic asylum type laughing? I don't know how Dr. Oz can put an exact number on 15 minutes of laughing. Calorie burn is different for everyone. Ridiculous.

Mslmesq

Article from AP:

ATHENS, Greece –  Dieters looking for another edge might want to consider exercising their sense of humor — scientists have found that a good laugh is a calorie burner not to be ignored.

It may not be as good for reducing the waistline as going to the gym or resisting that ice-cream sundae, but American researchers have found that 10-15 minutes of genuine giggling can burn off the number of calories found in a medium square of chocolate.
The findings on the weight-loss possibilities of the uniquely human experience of laughter were presented at the close of the annual European Congress on Obesity (search) on Saturday.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University (search) in Nashville, Tennessee, recruited 45 pairs of friends, shut them in a room decorated like a cheap hotel — scientifically known as a metabolic chamber — played them comedy clips on a TV screen and measured how many calories they burned when they laughed.

The researchers separately tested seven pairs of male friends, 17 pairs of female friends and 21 mixed couples.
"We didn't tell them that the goal of the study was to measure laughter, because then they might have forced it and forced laughter is regulated by a totally different part of the brain. We wanted it to be genuine laughter," said the lead researcher, Maciej Buchowski (search), director of bionutrition at Vanderbilt.

The volunteers were told the researchers were testing emotional reactions to various video clips.
The room was specially designed so the scientists could measure how much oxygen the volunteers inhaled and how much carbon dioxide they exhaled — the gold standard for measuring energy burning.

Noting differences in the oxygen and carbon dioxide patterns before and during laughter allowed the scientists to calculate whether laughter used more energy and how big the difference was.

Heart rate monitors were also fitted on the volunteers as a back-up measure of changes, as heart rate tends to respond to changes more quickly than breathing does. Microphones were fitted to record the laughter.

The volunteers were told not to talk or move and to just kick back in the reclining chairs and watch what was on the screen.
"First it was half an hour of something boring — an English landscape," Buchowski said. "During that time we measured the baseline, the resting metabolic rate."

Five different comedy clips, starting with a take-out from the Cosby show — minus the canned laughter _were then shown for 10 minutes each, interspersed with five minute intervals of sheep wandering around fields in England.
The heart rate, laughter and breathing information was then lined up in the special laughter lab and the tapes were analyzed second-by-second.

"They burned 20 percent more calories when laughing, compared to not laughing," Buchowski said.

"Then we calculated what would happen if somebody laughed for 10 or 15 minutes a day and we found that it was up to 50 calories, depending on your body size and the intensity of the laughter."
That means that if you laugh for 10-15 minutes a day, you'd burn enough calories to lose two kilograms (4.4 pounds) in a year, Buchowski said.

Physiology experts say it's not exactly an effective way to shed extra weight — but the idea is worth a laugh or two.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/06/04/study-laughter-can-burn-calories/#ixzz2dEZmdwqd

Ready2Rock206

Burning calories while laughing at the nonsense Dr Oz spews... :laugh:

__Di__

On Dr. Oz today he said you can burn 50 calories for every 15 minutes of laughing. I added this to my exercise list if nothing else to remind me the importance of laughing.:laugh:
May you laugh often and well.

Well I have laughed most of the day before now and it didn't seem to help me with my weightloss at the time, I would disregard Oz's observations there LOL

__Di__

I laugh when I clean my house.

I laugh when I look at my house and see how much I have to clean!

Edited to say, It is not laughing in a favourable way either :laugh:

ereck44

Laughing, coughing and sneezing work those tiny little muscles around the rib cage. I burned off 0.25 pounds after a bout of bronchitis.

BeachIron

Article from AP:

ATHENS, Greece –  Dieters looking for another edge might want to consider exercising their sense of humor — scientists have found that a good laugh is a calorie burner not to be ignored.

It may not be as good for reducing the waistline as going to the gym or resisting that ice-cream sundae, but American researchers have found that 10-15 minutes of genuine giggling can burn off the number of calories found in a medium square of chocolate.
The findings on the weight-loss possibilities of the uniquely human experience of laughter were presented at the close of the annual European Congress on Obesity (search) on Saturday.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University (search) in Nashville, Tennessee, recruited 45 pairs of friends, shut them in a room decorated like a cheap hotel — scientifically known as a metabolic chamber — played them comedy clips on a TV screen and measured how many calories they burned when they laughed.

The researchers separately tested seven pairs of male friends, 17 pairs of female friends and 21 mixed couples.
"We didn't tell them that the goal of the study was to measure laughter, because then they might have forced it and forced laughter is regulated by a totally different part of the brain. We wanted it to be genuine laughter," said the lead researcher, Maciej Buchowski (search), director of bionutrition at Vanderbilt.

The volunteers were told the researchers were testing emotional reactions to various video clips.
The room was specially designed so the scientists could measure how much oxygen the volunteers inhaled and how much carbon dioxide they exhaled — the gold standard for measuring energy burning.

Noting differences in the oxygen and carbon dioxide patterns before and during laughter allowed the scientists to calculate whether laughter used more energy and how big the difference was.

Heart rate monitors were also fitted on the volunteers as a back-up measure of changes, as heart rate tends to respond to changes more quickly than breathing does. Microphones were fitted to record the laughter.

The volunteers were told not to talk or move and to just kick back in the reclining chairs and watch what was on the screen.
"First it was half an hour of something boring — an English landscape," Buchowski said. "During that time we measured the baseline, the resting metabolic rate."

Five different comedy clips, starting with a take-out from the Cosby show — minus the canned laughter _were then shown for 10 minutes each, interspersed with five minute intervals of sheep wandering around fields in England.
The heart rate, laughter and breathing information was then lined up in the special laughter lab and the tapes were analyzed second-by-second.

"They burned 20 percent more calories when laughing, compared to not laughing," Buchowski said.

"Then we calculated what would happen if somebody laughed for 10 or 15 minutes a day and we found that it was up to 50 calories, depending on your body size and the intensity of the laughter."
That means that if you laugh for 10-15 minutes a day, you'd burn enough calories to lose two kilograms (4.4 pounds) in a year, Buchowski said.

Physiology experts say it's not exactly an effective way to shed extra weight — but the idea is worth a laugh or two.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/06/04/study-laughter-can-burn-calories/#ixzz2dEZmdwqd

^ I wholeheartedly agree with the last statement there in bold.

LuvDarkChocolate

Does laughing and tooting give you a triple score?

dbmata