Want to Slim Without Sports? Watch a Horror Movie!

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Anyone who wants to lose weight without exercise, practical, safe and not make the bag burst? The answer is easy, ladies/gents, watch any horror movie. As long as you do not snack when watching, it will burn more calories than other films.

University of Westminster in the UK gave the task of site LOVEFiLM.com to see the effect of watching a horror movie. Some volunteers recorded heart rate, oxygen intake, carbon dioxide is released and calories burned during a horror movie, reported Newsmaxhealth.

During watching a horror movie, the heart pumps blood throughout the body more rapidly, so that a person will experience a surge of adrenaline, explains Richard Mackenzie, an expert on metabolism at The Telegraph. It is produced when a person experiences fear, appetite down, Basal Metabolic rate (the amount of energy required to the working organs in the body) increases, thus burning more calories.

Based on this research, this is a horror movie that burns 10 calories well:

1. The Shining - 184 calories

2. Jaws - 161 calories

3. The Exorcist - 158 calories

4. Alien - 152 calories

5. Saw - 133 calories

6. A Nightmare on Elm Street - 118 calories

7. Paranormal Activity - 111 calories

8. The Blair Witch Project - 105 calories

9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - 107 calories

10. [Rec] - 101 calories

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In addition to the above movies, horror movies are no fewer okay is:

1. Ju - On (Japanese version)

2. Ringu (Japanese version)

3. Shutter

4. Phone

5. Phobia (4bia)

Are you ready to watch? Eh but not while snacking ya! That's tantamount to piling calories.