ArticleRambam Maimonides medical journal2014
Laugh Away the Fat? Therapeutic Humor in the Control of Stress-induced Emotional Eating.
Article in Rambam Maimonides medical journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Effects of laughter on focus and stress in middle-aged adults: a single-blind, randomized controlled trial.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Trial
- The effect of laughter yoga on perceived stress, burnout, and life satisfaction in nurses during the pandemic: A randomized controlled trial.Complementary therapies in clinical practice · 2022Trial
- Western diet-induced obesity interferes with the HPA axis-blunting effects of palatable food in male rats.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
- Food Security and Nutrition as the Neglected Missing Links in Cultural Evolution: The Role of the Sociotype.Rambam Maimonides medical journal · 2022Review
- Coping with the Challenges of COVID-19 Using the Sociotype Framework: A Rehearsal for the Next Pandemic.Rambam Maimonides medical journal · 2021Article
- Humor and Hunger Affect the Response Toward Food Cues.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Effects of Laughter Therapy for the Relief of Employment-Stress in Korean Student Nurses by Assessing Psychological Stress Salivary Cortisol and Subjective Happiness.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2020Article
- Contextual Word Embeddings and Topic Modeling in Healthy Dieting and Obesity.Journal of healthcare informatics research · 2019Article
- Positive emotion and cardiovascular disease in elderly people.International journal of clinical and experimental medicine · 2015Review
- The effects of laughter therapy on general health of elderly people referring to jahandidegan community center in shiraz, iran, 2014: a randomized controlled trial.International journal of community based nursing and midwifery · 2015Article
- Mood, food, and obesity.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Review
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Abstract
This review explores the potential overlap between the fields of nutrition and therapeutic humor, together with the role of humor as a possible tool for aiding those in whom emotions, particularly negative ones, trigger eating as a means to improve mood. We review emotional eating, obesity, and the hypothesized mechanisms of emotional eating. We then review the field of therapeutic humor and its ability to de-stress individuals, possibly through endorphin and opioid systems, both of which are also involved in eating behavior. Finally, we present a novel hypothesis that people may be trained to use humor as a "food substitute" at best, or to blunt hunger stimuli, to achieve similar advantages, without the side effect of weight gain.
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