1. Smile can boost your mood:
Psychologists have found that even if we are in bad mood, we can instantly lift our spirits by forcing ourselves to smile.
2. Smile can boosts your immune system:
Smiling can improve the physical health. It helps the immune system to function better. When smiling, our body is more relaxed, thus contributes to good health and a stronger immune system. By smiling, flu and colds also can be prevented.
3. Smiles are contagious:
In a study conducted in Sweden, people had difficulty frowning when they looked at other subjects who were smiling, and their muscles twitched into smiles all on their own.
4. Smiles Reduce Stress: Stress can really show up in our faces. Smiling helps to prevent us from looking tired, worn down, and overwhelmed. When we are stressed, try to put on a smile, even by forcing it. The stress will reduce and we will feel better.
5. Smiling have body benefits:
Every time we frown, we are unnecessarily exhausting 43 facial muscles, while smiling only uses 17 muscles. Add a laugh and we will also slim our middle -- the movement exercises our abs, diaphragm, shoulders and heart. Scientists at Vanderbilt University found that laughing can help to increase calorie burn by up to 20 percent.
6. Smiles use from 5 to 53 facial muscles: Just smiling can require your body to use up to 53 muscles, but some smiles only use 5 muscle movements.
7. Beauty comes from smile:
When asked to select more attractive counterparts, study participants at Scotland’s University of Aberdeen pointed to those people who were beaming. In another recent lab report, 69 percent of those asked said that women look more attractive when they wear a smile rather than makeup.
8. Smiling Releases Endorphins, Natural Pain Killers and Serotonin. Studies have shown that smiling releases endorphins, natural pain killers, and serotonin. Together these three make us feel good. Smiling is a natural drug.
9. Smile for longevity.. Research conducted at the University of Illinois has suggested that people who generally feel happy and smile more often have a longer life expectancy of nearly a decade. Another study looked at baseball cards. The Wayne State University scientists concluded that those athletes who were flashing their pearly whites in their pictures lived on average seven years longer than those who didn’t. (Abel & Kruger, 2010).
10. Smiling Lifts the Face and Makes You Look Younger. The muscles we use to smile lift the face, making a person appear younger. Don't go for a face lift, just try smiling your way through the day -- you'll look younger and feel better.