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1、生活中不知不觉地减掉脂肪ENJOYING A SMOOCHMaybe you havent spent significant amounts of time kissing since you were a teenager, and these days youd rather sleep than smooch. But if passion for your partner isnt enough motivation, consider the fact that kissing and hugging can take inches off your waistline.If it
2、s reallypassionate1, according to health expert Professor Bryant Stamford of Hanover College, Indiana, a good snog can burn up to two calories a minute.So it might be worth greeting your partner with more than the usual brief, peck on the cheek.Calories burned per hour: Up to 120Equivalent exercise:
3、 A 20 minute runTRYING ON CLOTHESCarting armfuls of clothes in and out of the changing room, struggling into tight polo necks and out of pencil skirts, marchingdeterminedly2from one shop to the next and back again - its just as exhausting as a trip to the gym and,hurrah3, just as good for you.Accord
4、ing to a recent survey by Debenhams, the average woman burns 385 calories looking for the perfectoutfit4, taking an average of 7,305 steps.Calories burned per hour: Up to 130Equivalent exercise: 20 push-upsCOOKING DINNERYou probably do it every night without thinking about it.And while shoving a rea
5、dy meal in the microwave wont burn much off, an hours chopping, lifting, stirring and blending will give you a decent mini-workout, plus the satisfaction that youve earned the meal youre about to eat.Calories burned per hour: 150 to 240Equivalent exercise: A half-hour jogA SUPERMARKET DASHJust doing
6、 the weekly shop can burn calories faster than Jessica Ennis-Hill can say heptathlon.As yourtrolley5fills up, youre effectively doing resistance training, firming up arms, legs and torso. Piling your trolley with heavy items first - tins, bottles and potatoes -intensifies6the workout.Calories burned
7、 per hour: Up to 200 with a heavy shopEquivalent exercise: 40 minutes of badmintonA LONG, HOT BATHSinking gently into a hot bath is all about relaxing and singing along to Radio 2, not dieting, surely?Not so: a Loughborough University study revealed that a steamy bath of 40c can melt away 140 calori
8、es (thats a significant 7 percent of a daily allowance of 2,000), and that sitting in one for an hour causes an 80 percent increase in energyexpenditure7, lowering bloodglucose8levels as a result.Calories burned per hour: Up to 140Equivalent exercise: 15 minutes vigorous swimmingHAVING A GOOD LAUGHI
9、ts hard to believe that sitting in the cinema watching the Ab Fab movie could do you as much good as a post-work circuit of the gym, but laughter is a full-body experience that can leave you asexhausted9as atreadmill10session.Research from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, published in the Internati
10、onal Journal ofObesity11, found that just 15 minutes of good, hard laughing a day will burn up to 40 calories - enough to drop 4 lb of excess weight a year.Try laughing little and often, whether its during a phone call with your best friend, or watching a DVD of your favouritecomedian12.Calories burned per hour: Up to 160Equivalent exercise: Half an hour of physically demanding gardening