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End-of-Year Advice from My Health and Wellness Keynote on Guam: Be Social, Relax and Laugh!

End-of-Year Advice from My Health and Wellness Keynote on Guam: Be Social, Relax and Laugh!

… laughter is the best medicine … for its social benefits and its ability to help people relax and unwind from life’s stressors.
I applaud TakeCare’s inclusion of social interaction as a component of a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Indeed, social interaction has been shown to be healthy (as long as people aren’t passing around the flu virus during their interactions!) People who are socially isolated tend to get sick more often and have worse mental health problems than people with good social networks. They take longer to recover from illness, too, and they die younger at a rate far greater than those who have strong social support.
And what is more social than laughter?!? …

The Healthy Humorist on 3 Summer Health Hazards

... The Rocky Mountains are not the most common location for Rocky Mountain spotted fever!  That’s true!  Who’s the idiot responsible for naming this disease?
Third, prevent food borne illness at barbecues by grilling at a temperature of 873 Kelvin until your meat turns into a solid carcinogenic rock.  Then deposit it into your neighbor’s rhododendron bush.  This lovely perennial will return next year with stunning vibrant colors!  And vertebrae! ...