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Does Watching Horror Movies Burn Calories?
Your racing heart and tense body might be doing more for you during a scary movie than making it difficult to cop a feel. It actually is burning calories.
“Each of the ten films tested set pulses racing, sparking an increase in the heart rate of the case studies. As the pulse quickens and blood pumps around the body faster, the body experiences a surge in adrenaline. It is this release of fast acting adrenaline, produced during short bursts of intense stress (or in this case, brought on by fear), which is known to lower the appetite, increase the Basal Metabolic Rate and ultimately burn a higher level of calories.”
Restaurant Serves Up Inhaled Food
Sometimes a good spice or texture just can’t be observed with the tongue and it has to be ingested in another fashion. Inhaling food, in this way, has become a new trend.
At the Juniper Kitchen and Wine Bar in Ottawa, Canada, you can get all the flavor you want free of charge and free of calories. The secret: Instead of serving you food as a solid or liquid, you’re served a fat-free, carb-free gas that offers all the taste of your favorite foods.
Swiss Woman Dies After Doing The “Sunlight Diet”
Hollywood has created many diets in its time, but now Hollywood has stiff competition and by stiff I mean extreme and debilitating.
Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reports that a woman starved to death after embarking on a spiritual diet that required her to stop eating or drinking and live off sunlight alone.
The Zurich newspaper reported Wednesday that the unnamed Swiss woman in her fifties decided to follow the radical fast in 2010 after viewing an Austrian documentary about an Indian guru who claims to have lived this way for 70 years.
