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Hiraku Ohta, a 61-year-old retired engineer living near Tokyo, has had diabetes for 26 years. He tried jogging and low- calorie diets to lose weight. It worked for a while, until he had to endure the stress of a job transfer. For the past 18 years he's been resigned to taking medication. In January, he participated in an experiment that's given him a whole new outlook on his illness.
It started with a sushi lunch, followed by a 40-minute educational lecture. Afterward, Ohta's blood-sugar level soared to 338 milligrams per deciliter. The next day, Ohta had the same lunch, but this time he attended a comedy show. Laughing apparently helped: Ohta's blood sugar topped out at 252mg/dl--an improvement of 25 percent. Dr. Koichi Kawai and his team found similar results in the 18 other patients who participated in the study. Expressions of ...