Laughing is the best way to feel good

Everyone knows that to laugh is contagious.
Even if most scientists hate it, the psychologists think that the laugh is something like insane or crazy and the Holy Bible makes everything to discourage it.
It's important to know that to laugh contribute to change the mood and to eliminate stress and tiredness. In time of H1N1, the laughter helps the immune system to work better.
Why we should not laugh? It's free!

This is the phylosophy which is built "Laughology", the documentary-movie released last week about the laughter's phenomenon in the world. The director is Albert Nerenberg, a Canadian indipendent film-maker, who would tell to the audience the facility and the utility of the laugh.
The movie borns from a real life's episode. Albert and his partner Shannon were deeply sad by family losses when they received the birth of their first child. This event changes totally their lives.
One day, suddenly, their daughter started to laugh unfettered and naturally during the second month and she spreaded the laugh to everything and everyone near her.

This event in Albert's life brought himself to travel discovering the different way to laugh in the world.
He will meet the "Holy laughters", people who think God laughs through them, and the "Tanzanian laughter epidemic", villagers suffering from a curious 'laughing disease'.
Then Albert will know the Inuit, indigenous people who live in the Artic regions of Canada, that use laughter to resist to their cold climate.
At the end, he will analyze the case of a man who recovered himself from a fatal disease through laughter.

To remember to the people to laugh there is also an official event, the "World Laughter Day" that happens on the first Sunday on May. It is a positive manifestation for world peace and it is a way to build friendship through laughter.
The first celebration was on January 1998 in Mumbai, India, and was created by Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide "Laughter Yoga" movement. It is an aspect of Yoga that uses laughter as an exercise to get the blood flowing.

Laughter is innate and is an excellent way to feel good, gaining health benefits, now and always.
So you can start to laugh out loud watching this video... :D

Snacks at the Cinema: worse than fast food

The worst habit during the movies is to cruch popcorn and to consume sugary soft drinks.
The warning comes from a new laboratory analysis, realized by the "Centre for Science in the Public Interest", and it explains how this food and drink's couple could be more dangerous than a whole lunch on the fast food.

According to the nutritionist, one medium bag of popcorn and a soft drink have the same caloric intake of 3 cheeseburgers with 12 pats of butter.
This test takes by comparison the meals offered by three big cinema's chain among U.S.A. and Canada.

The "$12 popcorn combo" served at Regal, the largest movie theatre in the US, totalized 1600 calories and 60 grams of saturated fats. This kind of fats could cause cancer, cardiovascular diseases and could raise the cholesterol's level in the blood. The above size of saturated fats is pair to the people's needs for 3 days.
The "large popcorn" sold at Cineplex, a big cinema's chain in Canada, reaches 1.100 calories and 5 grams of saturated fats, while the AMC's "large popped snacks" contains 'only' 940 calories and 38 grams of saturated fats, but the last one is cooked with coconut oil, the worst thing ever, which has about 90 per cent of saturated fats.

But don't despair! There are some advice to go to the cinema, remaining healthy.
First of all, it is better to skip the "Value Combo" because the only thing that you could gain by this packing is more fat on your waistline. It's advisable to order the smallest size possible.
Remember that popcorn is considered "whole grain" and it contains many beneficial nutriments like B vitamins and fiber. It's one of the healthiest snack available at the cinema, but without sugar, caramel or butter.
Then, if you need to crunch something during the movie remember to bring with you the most useful chewing gum. In this way you won't have time to take anything else.
At the end, if you are truly hungry, you could try to eat small fruit or muesli snack and to drink juice or water.

It is important to take care about own health, without to overemphasize with fat meal, because now you know the ending of your life's movie!

No privacy in the virtual social network, but real consequences

The privacy on the Net is one of the most controversial topic because there is the risk not to know what should remain just personal from what we could release in the wide ocean of Internet.

In the last days, it is hit the honours the news of the Canadian woman who lost her insurance's benefits because of her pictures were appeared on Facebook. Nothing in the web is truly private.
Nathalue Blanchard, 29 years old, live in Quebec. She left her job in IBM on Febrary 2008 because of a severe depression. The insurance company, called "Manulife", gave her economic benefits to regain fully her health.
The monthly cheque has been interrupted because Manulife saw the woman's pictures on Facebook, where she was smiling on the beach with her friend and during a men's striptease in a club. This score means, for the insurance company, that the woman is cured of her illness.

The decision to cancel the cheque is ambiguous for two reason. First of all, Manulife couldn't know that this holiday was a medical prescription for the depression. Then the company couldn't see the pictures because they were set on private condition, except if it used an illegal way, like the hacker's help. In addiction, it is superficial to judge as past the depression by a smile. because it is a temporary illness and could change day by day.

Maybe, in these cases, could be useful to make a distinction between the civil identity of a person and his virtual identity.
The social network's use seems become a drug who could cause addiction, not allowing to distinguish what we could do from what we couldn't do.
The virtuality will replace the real life in the future?
I don't know, but the present is before our very eyes.

The Wall of the Words: an alternative way to learn English

When you arrive in a new country, you have to learn quickly the language and the mind thinks about all the solutions to make it effectively.

You can study the different meaning of the million of words that you can meet in one day or you can open the dictionary at one casual page to discover new expressions, but instead to do a lot of useless work, there is an original and special way to learn English: the Wall’s Words.

A Wall’s Words is just an interactive collection of words, parts of words or expressions that you could make in your house, in your office and place of work or in your classroom. It is very easy to create.

You can use it to remember vocabulary, spelling, letter-sound correspondence and more else. The words could promote memory and knowledge, better if it happens with other people.
Words should be added to the wall with the English part in the front and the sense in your language (Italian in my case) in the back. In this way you can focus on the English use, inserting these words in your future sentences.

You can choose all the words that you think will be important to remember, but also those one curious or with a special meaning for you in your language. The words could be taken from the outside life, from the newspapers, the book or from the TV.

A great challenge could be to put on the wall five words each day and then to make a questioning about all the words on the weekend. It will be a game to share with your friends.
It’s very important to repeat more is possible to get entry them in your quotidian life.

Now, you can create your Wall’s Words too. You need only a pen, paper, scotch, a free wall and a lot of fantasy.

Good luck for your new experience and for the learning of the language.