Smiling stress

• Washington, Jul 31 (PTI) Just grin and bear it! Smiling can help speed your bodys recovery from stress by lowering your heart rate levels, a new study has claimed.
(MSN India)
• If youre feeling stressed, maybe the best thing you can do is crack a smile.
(Huffington Post)
• New study demonstrates that smiling has real health-relevant benefits, particularly because it acts as a panacea for stressful life events.
(Presstv)
• smiling could work to reduce anxiety and stress — whether you are "feeling it," or not.
(The Inquisitr)
• Researchers have found that the old aphorism Grin and bear it actually may have its roots in science and medicine. A new study found that, for people under stress, smiling helped them cope with stress, even if they were not actually happy.
(Medical Daily)
• We wanted to examine whether these adages had scientific merit; whether smiling could have real health-relevant benefits.
(Winnipeg Free Press)
• But grinning can do more than that. Researchers now believe that smiling during brief periods of stress may help reduce the body's stress response. Feeling happy has nothing to do with it.
(The Post and Courier)