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In addition to the meaning of loving connection, kissing also has many health benefits. One of the outstanding benefits is that kissing burns calories, helping to lose weight effectively.1. How does kissing burn calories?
Kissing is not only a way to express love, but also has many health benefits. When kissing, your heart rate and circulation will increase, the body releases hormones like oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin. .. make you feel happy, happy. Along with that, kissing is an effective way to burn calories. A kiss can burn about 2 calories per minute. When combined with cuddles or romantic dance, kissing can burn more calories.To determine how many calories a person can burn when performing a certain physical activity, we will rely on factors including weight, age, gender, and intensity of the activity. In general, the more intense an activity you do, the more calories you burn. The higher your weight, the more calories you can burn. The older you get, the fewer calories you burn.
There are currently no studies that show exactly how many calories kissing and cuddling burns. However, based on estimates of similar calorie-burning exercises, the following figures provide a general idea of how many calories you might burn when you kiss.
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2. How many calories does a kiss burn?
A casual kiss burns different calories than a kiss combined with intimate actions, such as:A kiss burns an average of 2-3 calories per minute. If passionately kissing every minute can burn from 5-26 calories. Kissing with cuddles can burn more calories than a regular kiss. For example, caressing can burn 2-3 calories per minute, combined with the act of hugging, can burn about 5 calories per minute or 150 calories in 30 minutes. Kissing combines romantic dancing: when you switch to exercise, the calories burned will be more. An effective calorie-burning exercise is to join your loved one in some romantic dances, neck rubs, active touches combined with kisses. Doing these activities will help you burn about 205 calories in 30 minutes, which equates to about 6 calories per minute. Kissing combines sex: According to a study done in 2012, on average men can burn about 100 calories during sex and kissing while women can burn about 69 calories.
3. Other Benefits of Kissing
In addition to the benefit of being one of the fastest ways to burn calories, kissing also has many great health benefits, such as:Stress reduction: Kissing helps reduce the amount of the hormone cortisol, the stress hormone that affects the body. negatively affect the immune system, brain health, endocrine system. Therefore, kissing helps the body reduce stress, fatigue, and balance life. Analgesic effect: passionate kisses help the body produce adrenaline hormone to effectively reduce pain. Good for oral health: when kissing, saliva will help stimulate more secretion to help remove bacteria and plaque on teeth. Good for facial muscles: the mouth is an area where many facial muscles are concentrated, regularly kissing will help the facial muscles become firm, slow down the aging process. Good for heart health: when kissing, the heart rate will beat faster, promote circulation, dilate blood vessels to feed the organs, so it is very good for health. Because of the benefits mentioned above, kiss your partner often for moments of joy, happiness, loving connection, and great health benefits.
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References: webmd.com, healthline.com