Anything legal, moral and healthy to help burn calories I love especially if it doesn't require more work or exercise. This month's issue of Cooking Light Magazine (pg. 26) lists five ways to boost metabolism. The first 4 we already know and don't do consistently or don't like: exercise more, work out with weights, practice portion control and eat smaller meals more often. They saved the best for last:

#5 "LAUGH IT OFF

When researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee put people into a "metabolism chamber" a small room that measures heat output in order to calculate a person's metabolic rate) and showed them funny videos, the subjects metabolic rates rose by 10 to 40 calories."

So turn on reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends and Seinfeld. Its good for us.

By Enchens on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 12:18 am:

Hey! I can do that! I love watching comedies. I've recently started watching the I Love Lucy reruns with my boys. They loved the episode where Lucy babysat the twin boys. lol