Monday, January 4, 2010

500 cal/day v. 300 cal/hr

The standard figure cited for breastfeeding is that it uses an extra 500 calories per day; an incentive to loose the pregnancy weight.

The English National Health Service (their agent of evil socialism), reports something even better. Sex will use up 300 calories per hour. Giving you a whole-body cardiovascular work-out and reducing the risk of heart disease. I suppose this figure depends upon how ... enthusiastic ... you are.

And, yet again even better:

If you're worried about wrinkles - orgasms even help prevent frown lines from deepening
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I thought of several quips for this post but decided that they'd either make me sound bitter or stupid so I'm writing this instead.

Did the Brits mention what the "Other" person does as far as burning calories? The babies.....