life spanExamining baseball card photos of players from 1952, Wayne State University in 2010 found out that smiling faces lived for years as opposed to 72.9 years for those who didn’t smile.

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Two studies from 2002 and 2011 at Uppsala University in Sweden confirmed that other people’s smiles actually suppress the control we usually have over our facial muscles, compelling us to smile.

University of Clermont-Ferrand in France subjected volunteers to hold a pencil in their mouths to repress the muscles that help us smile. Without the pencils in their mouths, subjects were excellent judges, but with the pencils (when they could not mimic the smiles they saw), their judgment was impaired.

Real Vs Fake Smiles

It takes 26 muscles to smile and 62 muscles to frownIt takes 26 muscles to smile and 62 muscles to frown More than 75%

people thinkthat beter smiles leads to healthier life.

Smile = Happiness

Penn State University study confirmed that when we smile we not only appear more likeable and courteous, but we’re actually perceived to be more competent.

In 2009 Echnische Universität (Munich, Germany), upon studying the brain activity before and after injecting Botox to suppress smiling muscles concluded that our brain’s circuitry of emotion and happiness is activated when we smile!

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According to a study by Jorn P.W. Scharlemann (2001) smile increased people’s willingness to trust with around

3-D ultrasound technology now shows that developing babies appear to smile even in the womb.

SMILE HAS NO LANGUAGEPaul Ekman (the world’s leading expert on facial expressions) discovered that smiles are cross-cultural and have the same meaning in different societies.

Smiling is not just a universal means of communicating, it’s also a frequent one.

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smile more than 20 times a day.

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smile less than 5 times a day.

Smiling is evolutionarily contagious and we have a subconscious innate drive to smile when we see one.

400 Children smile more than 400 times a day.

Anti-AgeingWhen we smile we use between 5 and 53 facial muscles, an exercise that helps prevent sagging skin.

Charles Dar�in also developed the Facial Feedback Response Theor�, which suggests that the act of smiling act�ally makes us feel better (rather than smiling being merely a result of feeling good).

Smiling stimulates our brain’s reward mechanisms in a way that even chocolate, a well-regarded pleasure-inducer, cannot match.

CHOCOLATE IS NO COMPETITION

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lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol leading tohealthier Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar Levels.

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