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text: claim watching scary movies could help boost your immune system and promote weight loss 
    vicki batts tags scary movies  immune system  weight loss naturalnews who doesnt love a good horror flick right there may actually be some health benefits to be found in watching scary movies too experts say that when you watch something frightening it engages your fight or flight response this in turn raises the amount of adrenaline pumping through your veins which can be pretty good for your bodypsychologist mark griffiths a professor of behavioral addiction at nottingham trent university says that there are a number of reasons why people typically seek out fearinducing films while the desire to experience something unusual isnt totally health related griffiths also commented on the potential healthy release some people may experience watching such films may also be cathartic providing an emotional release for pentup frustrations he told the uks daily mail but there could be more to it than just that at least according to some new research evidence indicates that the fear you experience while watching a scary movie could help to temporarily bolster your immune system scientists from coventry university took blood samples from a group of test subjects before during and after they either watched a scary movie or spent time in a quiet room their findings which were published in the journal stress  revealed that white blood cell counts were increased in those who saw the horror film  normally white blood cells respond in this way when there is a sign of infectionaccording to natalie riddell an immunologist at university college london this is all part of our evolutionary process which has been geared to promote the survival of the individual getting scared can engage the fight or flight response which in turn causes the release of adrenalinethe surge of adrenaline then launches the immune system into action  leading to an increased white blood cell countthats not all adrenaline can do either the survival hormone also elevates your heart rate and boosts your metabolic rate  the speed at which your body burns calories you may think that the number of calories you could burn by watching horror movies is negligible but studies have shown that you can actually burn a surprising amount of energy just by being scared thats right watching horror movies could help support your weight loss effortsin  researchers from the university of westminster conducted an experiment to see how many calories volunteers could burn off while watching  classic scary films on average each film scared the participants into torching about  calories  which is equivalent to walking for about  minutes the researchers found that the best horror movie for burning calories was none other than a classic steven king film thats right when people watched the shining directed by stanley kubrick they burned away a whopping  caloriesthe classic films jaws and the exorcist came in second and third place respectively for total calorie burning dr richard mackenzie senior lecturer and specialist in cell metabolism and physiology at the university commented that each of the  films sent hearts beating and pulses racing he explained as the pulse quickens and blood pumps around the body faster the body experiences a surge in adrenaline it is this release of fastacting adrenaline produced during short bursts of intense stress or in this case brought on by fear which is known to lower the appetite increase the basal metabolic rate and ultimately burn a higher level of caloriesoverall calorie burning increased by about onethird while the study participants watched the films of course this doesnt mean that you should watch a movie instead of exercising or eating healthfully  but the next time you sit down to watch a movie you might want to pick one from the horror genre sources