If you want to lose weight after the excesses
of the Christmas period, you may be better off
heading for the bedroom rather than the gym.
Making love really does count as significant
exercise, scientists say.

They have found that an hour of romance
between the sheets burns almost as many
calories as a 30-minute jog and so should be
taken into account when drawing up a fitness
plan.

Men expend 120 calories during half an hour
of sex and women use up 90, say researchers
from the University of Quebec in Canada.
That is just under half the amount they would
burn in a 30-minute jog. For brief periods
during sex, some men used more energy than
they did while on the treadmill.

The study, Energy Expenditure During Sexual
Activity In Young Healthy Couples, found that,
on average, men burned 4.2 calories a minute
during sex compared to 9.2 on the treadmill.
Women burned 3.1 calories a minute during
sex and 7.1 jogging.

The scientists recruited 20 heterosexual
couples, aged 18 to 35, to have sex once a
week for a month and to jog on a treadmill for
30 minutes.
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