6 Surprising Facts About Smiling

1 - You’ve probably heard that it takes more muscles to frown than it takes to smile. You’re actually exhausting 43 facial muscles every time you frown – it only takes 17 muscles to smile! Some studies have shown that smiling can actually lower blood pressure and exercise your diaphragm!

2 - Did you know that grinning comes naturally to humans? We don’t learn this from our surroundings. Some newborn babies even start to show semblances of smiles as early as two hours after delivery!

3 - The average woman smiles approximately 62 times a day. In that same day, a man only smiles a mere eight times. Why the frowns, gentlemen?

4 - 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 younger and more attractive when they wear a smile rather than makeup.

5 - 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.

6 - During an experiment conducted in Sweden, participants reported that they found it very difficult to frown when they saw other participants who were smiling. Many began to turn their mouths up without even realizing it.

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