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Lose Weight While Solving Sudoku Puzzles

December 1st, 2009 | By Balasingam

Some good news for those who want to lose weight. It has been reported that Mental Exercises such as solving Sudoku Puzzles and doing Crosswords can burn an average of 90 calories an hour.

Mental agility expert, Tim Forrester, from the Brain Training website Canny Minds said that “giving the brain a workout burns calories in the same way that giving the body a workout does”.

He said that “When we do something challenging such as a puzzle or a quiz we burn through 1.5 calories every minute.

Source: www.cannyminds.com and www.telegraph.co.uk