Laughing out loud may reduce mortality

【Yamagata Prefecture’s dystopian “Let’s laugh once a day” ordinance misinterprets the study’s report.る】
https://nazology.net/archives/156847

・The “Laughter for Health Promotion Ordinance,” the nation’s first laughter ordinance passed by the Yamagata Prefectural Assembly, is attracting attention.

・The ordinance, submitted by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the largest faction in the prefectural assembly, consists of six articles and requires prefectural residents to laugh once a day and businesses to make efforts to create a work environment filled with laughter.

・Although it is an obligation to make an effort, controversy has arisen in Japan and beyond Yamagata Prefecture over such issues as “it violates freedom of thought and conscience,” “there are days in life when you can’t laugh,” and “some people don’t want to laugh.

・The basis of this ordinance is the results of research conducted on Yamagata Prefecture residents.

・The study was conducted by the Yamagata Prefecture Cohort Study, a research project conducted by the Yamagata University School of Medicine, and showed that people who laughed more frequently had a lower risk of death.

・The study found that the all-cause mortality rate (a comparison of the percentage of people who died during a given period of time) was almost twice (1.95 times to be exact) higher in the group that rarely laughed compared to the group that laughed often.

・The study found that the mortality rate was almost twice (1.95 times, to be exact) that of the group that laughed most often, which was the group that laughed at least once a week, and the definition of laughing was “laughing out loud.

・It is not clear whether the ordinance is in line with the study’s findings.

・Many studies suggest that laughter may have a positive effect on the immune system (for example, laughter increases the activity of natural killer cells in the body), vascular function, and stress markers.

The above is a quote from the article

I recommend laughing out loud at least once a week.

The ordinance about laughing once a day is great.

As has been said on the Internet and social networking sites, I also think that the ordinance does not need to go that far into the individual’s conduct. (Although it is only a recommendation, if it becomes an ordinance, I feel as if I am being forced to laugh at it, which is not funny at all.)

(I also feel that there is no link between the content of the research and the ordinance, which also makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. ^^;

Once again, the research content is,

The group that rarely laughed out loud had about twice the overall mortality rate as the group that laughed out loud at least once a week.

To put it the other way around,

The death rate for the group that laughed out loud at least once a week was one-half that of the group that did not laugh.

We often say, “Laughing is good for you.”

However, laughing out loud is just as important as laughing at the same time.

However, as for me,

I think that even ordinary laughter and smiles are important in their own right.

They may not have that much impact on mortality and health,

They will certainly have a positive effect on you and your surroundings. (Like relationships.)

I’m forcing myself to compare it to exercise,

Normal laughter and smiling are daily life exercises such as taking a walk or doing housework

Laughing out loud is a weekend sport or exercise.

I guess you could say it’s like a weekend sport or exercise.

There is a difference in the intensity of the smile, but it is that both are important.

For now,

Aim to laugh out loud at least once a week.

Have you been laughing out loud lately?

Have a good smiling life ^^.

See you then

Ideally, we would rather laugh with each other than laugh alone. Rather than many more people laughing alone, my hope is that the number of people who can laugh with each other and such relationships will increase throughout the world.