23 June,2009 04:26 PM IST | | Mid Day Correspondent
While laughter is always welcome in our lives, one cannot laugh alone without being mistaken for a lunatic. But one can always play music all along and enjoy various health benefits.
While nobody will say no to music, it is always helpful to check out the evidence. According to this site, listening to enjoyable music may be good for cardiovascular health.
The University of Maryland Medical Centre also says that joyful music may promote heart health.
The heart is not the only organ that benefits from music and this site says that music makes the brain learn better.
In fact, another study has linked music to an enhanced immune system.
If you want to find out how and why this is so, you should check out this site.
Finally, rousing operatic music, like Puccini's Nessun Dorma, full of crescendos and diminuendos is best and could help stroke rehabilitation, says this study.