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●Section 2 Background information I. 相关背景知识 Laughter is the Best Medicine for Your Heart By Michelle WeinsteinUniversity of Maryland Medical System Web Site Writer Can a laugh every day keep the heart attack away? Maybe so. Laughter, along with an active sense of humor, may help protect you against a heart attack, according to a recent study by cardiologists at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. The study, which is the first to indicate that laughter may help prevent heart disease, found that people with heart disease were 40 percent less likely to laugh in a variety