Is Laughter Good For Our Health Or Not Most people agree that laughter is good for our health. There is a known phrase said, "Laughter is the best medicine." Besides, there are many medical studies which examine the benefit of laughter shows laughter not only makes us feel better, but also reduces our stress, and both of those are good for our health. Thus, I hold that laughter is good for us. However, last year, there is a paper published by the British Medical Journal said that laughter is not always the best medicine, and sometimes, it can be bad for our health. According to Professor Robin Ferner, who is one of the authors of the research paper, mentioned five problems caused by laughter, including heart rhythm disturbance, fainting, dislocated jaws, burst gullets or lungs. It seems laughing can be no laughing matter and we should not laugh so much or too hard. Although laughing can be harmful to our health, it is a good thing for most people in most of the time. Robin Ferner said that laughing makes people feel better, and it can reduce the chance of having a heart attack. Apart from above, we actually use quite a lot of energy when we laugh, we move our diaphragm, we expand our lungs, and those can be helpful to our health. Moreover, laughing can help losing weight. Laughing for quarter of an hour will burn up 40 kilocalories, and if we laughed all day, we could use up 2000 calories, which is what most people consume in a day. In short, as the research paper said, laughter is not the best medicine all the time, but it is still great thing for us in overall. We merely have to notice not to laugh so much and too hard which prevents us from getting those five problems that Robin Ferner had mentioned. Laughter is good for our health had the last laugh there.