Every year July 6, is celebrated as International Kissing Day. In America National Kissing Day is celebrated on June 22. Another day to celebrate the Kissing Day falls on February 13 a day before the Valentine Day.
International Kissing Day is well known to mark the love between two people in a relationship. This day is perceived to commemorate the love, affection, fondness, pleasure and liking towards the other person in the relation. This day was first celebrated in the early 2000s by the United Kingdom, and later it got spread across the world.
There are certain facts and benefits of kissing that are mentioned below:-
- Build Happy Relationship
Kissing helps to strengthen the relationship along with your partner. It brings happiness joy and pleasure and keeps the connection good going.
- Kissing helps reduce blood pressure
Passionate kiss helps in lower your blood pressure as it revs your heart beats in a healthy manner.
- Most People are Right-Headed Kissers
Researchers have found that the majority of the people move their heads towards right when they start kissing.
- Kissing helps in Burning calories
Researchers have stated that kissing has helped in burning calories. With a simple kissing one can burn around 2 to 3 calories per minute. Meanwhile, a passionate kiss can burn around 5 to 26 calories per minute.
- Kissing helps to tend down the pain during Headache and Cramps
Whenever you kiss someone, the good hormone’s oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin gets released in the body that will help you get relived from the pain of Headache and Cramps. Kissing increases dilated blood vessels and increased blood flow, which helps in reducing the pain.
- Kissing can help you improve your Self-Esteem
Kissing helps in boosting your Self-Esteem. People that have low Self-Esteem tend to feel bad about themselves and this can be a reason of stress and sadness. Kissing makes you feel desirable, it lowers the cortisol and release the good hormones in the body that can make you love yourself, and you will feel good about the way you are.
- Kissing helps in Anti-Aging
When you kiss passionately, your face muscles also moves which is similar like doing a facial exercise. Total 29 to 34 muscles are stimulated during a kiss. 17 muscles are required in the tongue area alone during a languishing kiss. During the kiss, the natural collagen from the body is released which prevents you from Anti-Aging and makes you look youthful.
- Kissing prevents you from getting cavities
Studies have proved that kissing has tons of Bacteria and when you take bacteria from someone’s mouth into your mouth, it prevents you from getting Cavities in the teeth. This logic states that during kissing the bacteria and germs that are in your mouth already tends to get washed away.
