Wellness

10 unusual ways to burn calories

Here are a few ways you can burn calories without having to step on a treadmill at the gym!

#1: Kissing. A passionate kiss will burn about 6 calories per minute.

#2: Painting. Painting burns about 290 calories per hour.

#3: Drinking ice cold water. Your body will burn about 30 calories per litre bringing it up to regular body temperature.

#4: Fidgeting. A Mayo Clinic study found people who keep fidgeting burn about 350 more calories per day.

#5: Kite flying. Flying a kite for 30 minutes can burn up to 100 calories.

#6: Blow-drying. Blow-drying your hair for 30 minutes will burn 50 calories.

#7: Laughing out loud. Five minutes will burn about 20 calories, and help you feel the abdominal burn!

#8: Disco dancing. You’ll burn about 150 calories per half hour.

#9: Dusting. Half an hour of dusting will burn about 70 calories.

#10: Sleeping. You’ll burn about 150 calories by simply sleeping for about two and a half hours.

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Monica Matys

Monica Matys is a Communications Advisor at Sunnybrook.

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