HOW TO IMPROVE ONE S HEALTH

DO YOU HAVE A FUNNY MOVIE THAT MADE YOU ROAR WITH LAUGHTER ? 

DO YOU HAVE A  VIDEO THAT SHOWS A COMEDIAN CRACKING GOOD JOKES? 

HOW CAN LAUGHTER IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH? 

Laughter is the Best Medicine

It’s fun to share a good laugh, but did you know it can actually improve your health? Learn how to harness the powerful benefits of laughter and humor.

The benefits of laughter

It’s true: laughter is strong medicine. It draws people together in ways that trigger healthy physical and emotional changes in the body. Laughter strengthens your immune system, boosts mood, diminishes pain, and protects you from the damaging effects of stress. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hope, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert. It also helps you release anger and forgive sooner.

With so much power to heal and renew, the ability to laugh easily and frequently is a tremendous resource for surmounting problems, enhancing your relationships, and supporting both physical and emotional health. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free, and easy to use.

As children, we used to laugh hundreds of times a day, but as adults, life tends to be more serious and laughter more infrequent. But by seeking out more opportunities for humor and laughter, you can improve your emotional health, strengthen your relationships, find greater happiness—and even add years to your life.

Laughter is good for your health

Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after.

Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.

Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.

Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.

Laughter burns calories. Okay, so it’s no replacement for going to the gym, but one study found that laughing for 10 to 15 minutes a day can burn approximately 40 calories—which could be enough to lose three or four pounds over the course of a year.

Laughter lightens anger’s heavy load. Nothing diffuses anger and conflict faster than a shared laugh. Looking at the funny side can put problems into perspective and enable you to move on from confrontations without holding onto bitterness or resentment.

Laughter may even help you to live longer. A study in Norway found that people with a strong sense of humor outlived those who don’t laugh as much. The difference was particularly notable for those battling cancer.

 

COVID-19

SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT

 

The UN’s Framework for the Immediate Socio-Economic Response to the COVID 19 Crisis warns that “The COVID-19 pandemic is far more than a health crisis: it is affecting societies and econ­omies at their core. While the impact of the pandemic will vary from country to country, it will most likely increase poverty and inequalities at a global scale, making achievement of SDGs even more urgent.

Assessing the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on societies, economies and vulnerable groups is fundamental to inform and tailor the responses of governments and partners to recover from the crisis and ensure that no one is left behind in this effort.

Without urgent socio-eco­nomic responses, global suffering will escalate, jeopardizing lives and livelihoods for years to come. Immediate development responses in this crisis must be undertaken with an eye to the future. Development trajectories in the long-term will be affected by the choices coun­tries make now and the support they receive.”

The United Nations has mobilized the full capacity of the UN system through its 131 country teams serving 162 countries and territories, to support national authorities in developing public health preparedness and response plans to the COVID-19 crisis.

Over the next 12 to 18 months, the socio-economic response will be one of one of three critical components of the UN’s COVID-19 response, alongside the health response, led by WHO, and the Global Humanitarian Response Plan.

As the technical lead for the socio-economic response, UNDP and its country offices worldwide are working under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinators, and in close collaboration with specialized UN agencies, UN Regional Economic Commissions and IFIs, to assess the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on economies and communities. The assessment reports available on this site contain the preliminary findings of regional and country analyses.

Massive production disruptions that started in China have led to a lower supply of goods and services that reduces overall hours worked, leading to lower incomes.

Photo:
UNDP China

Briefs and Reports

 

Brief #2: Putting the UN Framework for Socio-Economic Response to COVID-19 into Action: Insights

Across the globe, the UN is supporting countries in preparing assessments of the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19. What are these assessments saying and what are the key socio-economic issues caused by the pandemic that the UN and its partners are seeing on the ground?

On behalf of the UN, UNDP prepares the monthly briefs Putting the UN Framework for Socio-Economic Response to Covid-19 Into Action exploring latest trends and providing key insights and analysis on the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 on economies and societies.

IMMIGRATION CRISIS UNDER BIDEN

 THERE is a serious problem at the border. This has been going on for years and neither administration, whether Trump s or Biden s does seem  to be tackling the issue seriously.

Would you like  to read further about this issue? 

We recommend NEWSWEEK S article 

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THIRD WORLD DEBT

 

In the 1960s, many developing countries with low productivity, low income, and low saving rates began to borrow large sums of money from Western banks, in order to industrialise.

 

In many countries, this worked successfully for a few years, but after the huge rise in oil prices in 1973, while the oil-exporting nations were depositing their "petrodollars" in Western  banks, many developing countries needed to borrow more money to pay for their imported oil.

 

After the second oil shock in 1979, and the economic slowdown that followed it, interest rates rose and the prices of the commodities and agricultural goods exported by the debtor countries fell.

 

For these reasons, many of the heavily indebted Third World Countries are now unable to service their debts with Western commercial banks: i.e.: they cannot pay the interest , let alone repay the principal.

 

Consequently they need to rollover or renew the loans, to reschedule or postpone repayments, or to borrow further money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) just to pay the interest on existing loans from commercial banks.

In these circumstances, when rescuing or "bailing out" indebted countries, the IMF insists on "structural adjustment" and "austerity" measures, obliging governments to devalue, to privatise as much as possible, to cut spending on health care, education and transport, to end food subsidies, and to export everything that can be sold, including food.

 

All this obviously makes most of the people in these countries much worse off that they were before their governments began borrowing to finance development.

In the late 1980s, many Western banks and governments (but not the IMF) began to write off or cancel a proportion of the loans made to Third World countries which had defaulted , although the proportion cancelled is generally less than the amount that the countries were repaying anyway.

 

In the 1990s, while much of  the Third World countries was paying billions of dollars of interest to the IMF (but hardly reducing the size of the loans themselves), the commercial banks started to lend billions of dollars to the former "Second World"-the previously communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe.        

 

 

 

 

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