STOP your gym membership, spill your diet shakes and burn your Atkins Diet book. A new diet revolution is crawling into society and all it requires is a comfy couch and a flatscreen.
It's being dubbed the 'horror film diet' and involves just that - a diet of some of the most distressing films you will ever watch!
If you believe researchers, watching a 90-minute horror film burns 113 calories - the equivalent of the amount of calories shed during a half-hour walk.
And the movie top of the list of calorie-burners was found to be the 1980 psychological thriller The Shining, with the average viewer using up a whopping 184 calories.
Jaws took the runner-up spot, with viewers burning on average 161 calories, and The Exorcist came third, with 58 calories.
Researchers from the University of Westminster measured the total energy wasted by 10 people as they watched frightening movies.
They recorded the participants' heart rate, oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output and found the calories shed increased by on average a third during the films.
The study also revealed films that made viewers jump in fear burnt the most calories because they made the heart rate soar.
The top 10 calorie-burning frightening films were:
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
http://www.news.com.au/national/new...e-fat-out-of-you/story-fndo4eg9-1226505361603
It's being dubbed the 'horror film diet' and involves just that - a diet of some of the most distressing films you will ever watch!
If you believe researchers, watching a 90-minute horror film burns 113 calories - the equivalent of the amount of calories shed during a half-hour walk.
And the movie top of the list of calorie-burners was found to be the 1980 psychological thriller The Shining, with the average viewer using up a whopping 184 calories.
Jaws took the runner-up spot, with viewers burning on average 161 calories, and The Exorcist came third, with 58 calories.
Researchers from the University of Westminster measured the total energy wasted by 10 people as they watched frightening movies.
They recorded the participants' heart rate, oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output and found the calories shed increased by on average a third during the films.
The study also revealed films that made viewers jump in fear burnt the most calories because they made the heart rate soar.
The top 10 calorie-burning frightening films were:
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
http://www.news.com.au/national/new...e-fat-out-of-you/story-fndo4eg9-1226505361603
