Scare Yourself Thin: Horror Movies Help Burn Calories Study Finds

The axe kin diet Shelley Duvall loses about half a stone in The Shining. — The axe kin diet … Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) loses about half a stone in The Shining. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Warner Bros

Watching scary movies can help you burn the calorific equivalent of a small chocolate bar, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Westminster.

Those who watched a 90-minute horror film were likely to burn up to 113 calories ….

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Scare yourself thin: horror movies help burn calories study finds