17 Ways Traveling Will Make You Healthier
| March 23, 2015
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11. And Smile More
Everyone loves to smile! Smiles are nice to look at, pleasant, relaxing, and good for you too. Doctors agree that smiling lowers your heart rate, reduces stress, increases productivity, improves your mood and can even relieve pain through the endorphins released when you grin like a doofus. And what do you do a lot of while you’re chilling out on the beach without a care in the world? Smiling, of course! It’s not hard to see why. A change of scenery, a new place littered with beautiful scenery and people, fantastic food, and little to no stress? Yes, yes, yes!
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