Horror Movies help to lose weight Bashny.Net

View ninety minute horror film allows you to burn as many calories as a short walk, the scientists found. For example, while watching "The Shining" average viewer loses a whopping 184 calories, which is equivalent to the whole chocolate bar.

The study of energy consumption while watching the movie do the scientists of the University of Westminster. As part of the experiment, they measured the subjects had heart rate, oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production, and asked them to watch on TV horror. As a result, it was found that the study participants spent a third more energy than during a total inactivity, and, what was worse than the movie, the more calories were burned.

«Horror movies cause an increase in heart rate. As a result, the pulse quickens, blood runs through his veins faster splash of adrenaline going. That, in turn, reduces appetite, speeds up metabolism and ultimately allows to burn calories much faster, "- says Dr. Richard MacKenzie, an expert in cell metabolism and physiology at the University of Westminster.

blockquote> The top ten films for the best weight loss, according to the scientists, led by "The Shining" - shot on the novel by Stephen King thriller Stanley Kubrick. In second place of horror man-eater "Jaws" - for watching it you can burn 161 calories. In third place is "The Exorcist" - adaptation of William Peter Blatty works of the devil obsessed 12-year-old girl. This classic horror allow destroy 158 calories.

In fourth place - "Alien" by Ridley Scott: alien-killer cause the heart to beat so that by itself will disappear 152 calories. Films from the series "Saw" able to burn 133 calories. The classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street" in sixth place with 118 calories, "Paranormal Activity" - a low-budget horror movie - kill 111 calories. After watching another mockumentary film "The Blair Witch Project" will burn 105 calories, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" - 107. Of course, the list could not be a movie about zombies - Spanish "Report" 2007 will destroy 101 calories.

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