A smile a day keeps the doctor away
每天微笑，永保健康
Read the following leaflet about the benefits of laughter in our lives.
阅读下面的关于在我们生活中笑的益处的传单。
Have you ever heard the proverb 'laughter is the best medicine'?
你听说过“笑是最好的良药”这句谚语吗？
Everyone knows that it is fun to laugh and that laughing makes you feel good.
每个人都知道笑很有趣，笑能让你感觉很好。
Now doctors and researcher are telling us that laughter is good for our health and may even prevent illnesses such as heart disease.
现在医生和研究员们告诉我们笑对我们的健康有益，甚至可能防止诸如心脏病等疾病。
Laughter helps reduce stress and lower blood pressure and pulse rates.
笑能帮助减小压力，降低血压和脉搏速度。
It strengthens the immune system and helps us deal with pain just like real medicine does.
笑能像真正的药物一样增强免疫系统，帮助我们对抗疼痛。
In fact, laughter is so good for our health that laughing 100 times a day is equivalent to exercising for ten minutes on a rowing machine!
事实上，笑对我们的健康有益，一天笑一百次相当于在划船机上锻炼十分钟。
Laughter is also good for our minds.
笑还有益于我们的情绪。
When people are stressed, they watch funny films to laugh away emotions such as anger, sadness and fear.
当人们感到压力，他们会看有趣的电影，用笑来驱走诸如气愤，悲伤和恐惧之类的情绪。
This is why laughter is increasingly being used in hospitals as a form of therapy.
这就是为什么笑作为一种疗法被越来越多的运用于医院。
More and more hospitals are encouraging patients to laugh.
越来越多的医院鼓励病人们笑。
They have started showing comedies on hospital TVs and, on the advice of doctors, clowns visit some hospitals to bring laughter to the patients.
他们已经开始在医院的电视上播放喜剧，在医生的建议下，小丑们到医院里来给病人带来欢笑。