Blogpost 3: Calorie burner?

Watching horror film requires a lot of energy,our minds and bodies focuses too much in it and we don't even recognize that there is already something happening in our body. As I was doing my research about horror film I was surprised to see something interesting. I didn't know that when a person watch a horror movie it somehow burns the fats and calories inside us, Whoa! isn't that awesome? 

"viewers who put themselves through 90 minutes of adrenaline-pumping terror can use up as much as 113 calories, close to the amount burned during a half-hour walk and the equivalent to a chocolate bar". Says the University of Westminster in the article, Watching horror films can burn calories, University study say.


According to the article watching horror films could burn calories, we could even eat our favorite chocolate and not even thinking about the calories that we might get from eating it. They made a study about how much calories are burned depending on how frightening the movie is and the results were as follows:

Stanley Kubrick's classic "The Shining", (184 calories),"Jaws" (161 calories), "The Exorcist" (158 calories), "Alien" (152 calories), "Saw" (133 calories), "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (118 calories), "Paranormal Activity" (111 calories), "The Blair Witch Project" (105 calories), "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (107 calories), "[REC]" (101 calories).


When I first saw these articles I was really shocked, I don't really expect that by just merely watching a 2 hour horror film could lessen the amount of calories that a person has. This is really something amazing.


Another article that I saw about this matter is Watching horror films can burn up to 180 calories from the Daily News, Said this quote.


"As pulse quicken and blood pumps around the body faster, the body experiences a surge in adrenaline." He adds. "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 nasal metabolic rate and ultimately burn a higher level of calorie."

This article is saying that watching horror movies can help us burn calories as long as we don't pair it with eating buttered popcorn or a high calorie food. Knowing this, it will be a lot easier for us to lose weight and at the same time we enjoy the film. I never thought that by simply watching a scary movie would help burn fats and lose weight, I was really surprised to know about this matter, It is a good thing I am doing a research about horror movies.





This really is a good news especially to those candy,chocolate and other sweets lover because knowing this can lessen the amount of calories we have in our body and the better news is that we don't have to do some extreme exercise or enter gyms instead, we could just sit down and enjoy watching our favorite movies while burning calories, So why do that extremely hard and sweating exercises if you could just sit and enjoy watching movies in your house or go out with friends and have almost the same result?