Laugh off the extra pounds

Laugh off the extra pounds:

"Dieters looking for another edge might want to consider exercising their sense of humor -- scientists have found that a good laugh is a calorie burner not to be ignored."
"Five different comedy clips, starting with an outtake from 'The Cosby show' -- minus the canned laughter -- were then shown for 10 minutes each, interspersed with five minute intervals of sheep wandering around fields in England."

Oh yeah... and remember how a couple weeks ago there was this huge buzz about how people who are a little overweight live longer than "normal" or underweight people? Dream on:

Overweight people live longer than people who are malnourished or dying of cancer:

"Many scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health, the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society now reject those conclusions. They said the study's main flaw is that it included people with health problems ranging from cancer to heart disease, who tend to weigh less because of those problems and therefore make pudgy people look healthy by comparison."