Kissing does burn calories.\u00a0 How many calories kissing burns actually depends on a few factors but experts say that it a good make-out session could be as beneficial as a brisk walk in the park. Does kissing burn 6.4 calories?\u00a0 It could!\u00a0 And the good news is the more passionately you do it, the more calories it could burn.<\/p>\n
Kissing burns calories and has health benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n Whether or not it’s true that kissing burns 6.4 calories doesn’t change the truth about it’s health benefits.\u00a0 Laying one on someone we care about actually stimulates our mood and helps improve our immunity.\u00a0 It also just makes us feel cared for.\u00a0 Everyone knows that after a good session of slobber swapping on the couch they feel giddy.\u00a0 That doesn’t just go for teenagers in puppy love either.\u00a0 Even older adults who are kissing for the 5,000th time still get a head rush and a racing heart when they get into it hot and heavy.<\/p>\n Experts say the more we get into it the more we will get out of it.\u00a0 The excitement from a good kiss increases our heart rate and blood flow.\u00a0 We start to get amped up and sometimes aroused.\u00a0 Getting winded while lip-locked is also a good sign that kissing is burning more calories.\u00a0 Obviously a peck on the cheek isn’t a kiss that will burn 6.4 calories but a deeply passionate kiss could.\u00a0 On average, a kiss actually burns between 2 and 3 calories per minute.\u00a0 That means for a kiss to burn 6.4 calories, it would have to be over 3 minutes long.<\/p>\n Does kissing burn 6.4 calories?<\/strong><\/p>\n 3 minutes doesn’t sound like a lot when it comes to kissing but it’s actually longer than you may think.\u00a0 3 minute kisses usually involve a little tongue and hopefully a lot more action. According to experts, the extra action is a good thing when it comes to burning calories.\u00a0 The more intense and passionate a kiss is the more likely it is to burn 6.4 calories.\u00a0 When couples make out and include heavy breathing and touching, maybe even some additional stimulation, the number of calories that kissing burns does go up.<\/p>\n Can kissing burn 6.4 calories per minute? It could under the right circumstances – but usually it involves more than just kissing.\u00a0 Bryant Stamford, a professor at the University of Louisville says that if things get really really hot and heavy and you’re thrashing around, you may burn the same amount of calories while kissing as a brisk walk, which is about 4 calories per minute.<\/p>\n Even though kissing burns calories, it is unlikely to burn 6.4 calories per minute.\u00a0 Unless you’re passionately involved, headed to the bedroom and slamming each other into walls on the way, kissing probably only burns about 3 calories per minute. However, kissing for a while leads to other intimate acts like foreplay, sex and orgasm.\u00a0 Combined with the calories from kissing, a half hour romp with a partner could burn more than 7 calories a minute.<\/p>\n Kissing does burn calories but to burn 6.4 calories a minute you’d have to do quite a bit more than play tonsil hockey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kissing does burn calories.\u00a0 How many calories kissing burns actually depends on a few factors but experts say that it a good make-out session could be as beneficial as a brisk walk in the park. Does kissing burn 6.4 calories?\u00a0 It could!\u00a0 And the good news is the more passionately you do it, the more calories it could burn. Kissing burns calories and has health benefits Whether or not it’s true that kissing burns 6.4 calories doesn’t change the truth about it’s health benefits.\u00a0 Laying one on someone we care about actually stimulates our mood and helps improve our immunity.\u00a0 It also just makes us feel cared for.\u00a0 Everyone knows that after a good session of slobber swapping on the couch they feel giddy.\u00a0 That doesn’t just go for teenagers in puppy love either.\u00a0 Even older adults who are kissing for the 5,000th time still get a head rush and a racing heart when they get into it hot and heavy. Experts say the more we get into it the more we will get out of it.\u00a0 The excitement from a good kiss increases our heart rate and blood flow.\u00a0 We start to get amped up and sometimes aroused.\u00a0 Getting winded while lip-locked is also a good sign that kissing is burning more calories.\u00a0 Obviously a peck on the cheek isn’t a kiss that will burn 6.4 calories but a deeply passionate kiss could.\u00a0 On average, a kiss actually burns between 2 and 3 calories per minute.\u00a0 That means for a kiss to burn 6.4 calories, it would have to be over 3 minutes long. Does kissing burn 6.4 calories? 3 minutes doesn’t sound like a lot when it comes to kissing but it’s actually longer than you may think.\u00a0 3 minute kisses usually involve a little tongue and hopefully a lot more action. According to experts, the extra action is a good thing when it comes to burning calories.\u00a0 The more intense and passionate a kiss is the more likely it is to burn 6.4 calories.\u00a0 When couples make out and include heavy breathing and touching, maybe even some additional stimulation, the number of calories that kissing burns does go up. Can kissing burn 6.4 calories per minute? It could under the right circumstances – but usually it involves more than just kissing.\u00a0 Bryant Stamford, a professor at the University of Louisville says that if things get really really hot and heavy and you’re thrashing around, you may burn the same amount of calories while kissing as a brisk walk, which is about 4 calories per minute. Even though kissing burns calories, it is unlikely to burn 6.4 calories per minute.\u00a0 Unless you’re passionately involved, headed to the bedroom and slamming each other into walls on the way, kissing probably only burns about 3 calories per minute. However, kissing for a while leads to other intimate acts like foreplay, sex and orgasm.\u00a0 Combined with the calories from kissing, a half hour romp with a partner could burn more than 7 calories a minute. Kissing does burn calories but to burn 6.4 calories a minute you’d have to do quite a bit more than play tonsil hockey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-lifestyle","category-myths","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}