Benefits Of Kissing

A kiss is the pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, affection, respect, greeting, friendship, peace and good luck, among many others.

1. Kissing helps reduce blood pressure
Making out isn't just good for your emotional heart, it gives your anatomical one a workout, too. Kissing passionately gets your heartbeat revved in a healthy way that helps lower your blood pressure. It dilates your blood vessels -- blood is flowing in a good, solid fashion and getting to all your vital organs.

2. Kissing zaps cramps and headaches
Kissing is great if you have a headache or menstrual cramps.You may be inclined to wave away advances when you're curled into an achy ball, but the blood-vessel dilation brought on by a good long smooching session can really help ease your pain.

3. Kissing fights cavities
A smooch-a-thon gets all, er, fluids flowing -- including your saliva. When you're kissing, you're secreting more saliva in your mouth. That's the mechanism that washes away the plaque on your teeth that leads to cavities. 

4. Kissing amps up your happy hormones
If you're feeling stressed or rundown, a little kissing or lovemaking is actually the elixir you need to feel better. It will relax, restore and revitalize you. The feel-good chemicals in the brain get percolating: serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin -- things you can get from the rush of exercising.

5. Kissing burns (a few) calories
It can't compare to 30 minutes on the elliptical, but a vigorous makeout session can burn 8 to 16 calories per smooch. Kissing and lovemaking can be a vigorous exercise if you're fully engaged. You need to have a passionate kiss -- in order to burn those calories, but it doesn't have to be a 10-hour makeout session.

6. Kissing boosts self-esteem
One German study found that men who got a nice juicy kiss from their wives before leaving for work made more money. If he leaves his home happy, he's more productive at work because he's not feeling emotionally distressed, so he's going to make more money. Kissing has so much to do with your self-esteem and feeling loved and connected.

7. Kissing can give you a facelift (kind of)
Deep kissing can shape up the neck and jawline, which are often trouble spots for those concerned about looking older. Your mouth has a number of facial muscles. When those are engaged in kissing, you can tighten and tone them.

8. Kissing is a barometer for sexual compatibility
It can be an excellent way to check out a potential partner for sexual compatibility before getting naked and emotionally involved.

It doesn't have to be hard to ease your pain, just kiss your love ones and it will fade away.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/14/health/upwave-kissing/