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Power of Smile

June 15 is Power of a Smile Day, and this special day is the perfect excuse to experience
the benefits of smiling as you show off your pearly whites. Aside from making you look
friendlier and more attractive, smiles also have effects on your health and the people around
you.

Studies show that smiles can improve your mood and help your health, even when you
have to force them. When you smile with your lips and eyes, your body responds. Smiling
increases the levels of mood-enhancing hormones in the body and helps reduce the levels of
stress-hormones. It can also have other benefits, like lowering a person’s blood pressure. In
fact, British researchers found that one smile stimulates a person’s brain as much as eating
2,000 chocolate bars or receiving US＄25,000 in cash.

Another piece of good news is that smiles spread easily from one person to another.
People naturally mimic the facial expressions of those they see, so if you smile, there’s a
good chance that they’ll smile back. In this way, you’ll help them improve their health, too.
Now that’s definitely something to smile about.

微笑的力量

6 月 15 日是一個微笑力量的日子，在這特殊的日子微笑是一個完美的藉口，你可
以向大家炫耀出你的珍珠白的牙齒，體驗微笑帶來的好處。微笑除了讓你看起來更親
切，也更具吸引力，微笑也對你的健康和你周圍的人會產生影響。

研究顯示出，微笑能改變你的情緒，並增進你的健康，甚至必要的時候你必須強迫
自己微笑。當你微笑時，會反應在你的嘴唇、眼睛和你的身體反應。微笑會增加體內
情緒荷爾蒙的水平，並有助於降低壓力荷爾蒙的水平。此外，微笑也有其他的優點，
比如降低了一個人的血壓。事實上，英國的研究人員發現，一個微笑刺激一個人的大
腦如同一個人吃了 2,000 塊巧克力棒或是贏得了 25,000 美元的現金。

另一個好消息是笑容可以輕鬆地在人類彼此之間傳播。人們自然而然地模仿那些他
們所看到的面部微笑表情，所以如果你微笑，這就是一個機會，人們會以微笑回應。
如此一來，你會幫助人們改善他們的健康，就是現在，肯定放心開懷地去微笑吧。

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