If you think doing household chores will save you a trip to the gym, you might want to think again.
A new study from Northern Ireland finds that people who report housework as part of their weekly exercise tend to be heavier than those who get their exercise through more traditional means.
In fact, the more time people said they spent performing housework as exercise (which they considered moderate to vigorous physical activity), the heavier they tended to be.
The researchers speculated that people who say they exercise by doing housework are overestimating the intensity or duration of the activity. Or, it could be that people overestimate how many calories they burn doing chores, and eat too much, the researchers said.
The findings suggest that housework "may not be sufficient to provide all of the benefits normally associated with meeting the physical-activity guidelines," the researchers wrote in the Oct. 18 issue of the journal BMC Public Health
there is a lot of household chores we do that serve as an exercise routine in our self . one of example is doing the dishes, in that simple way we exercise our hands and arms that we use while doing the chores . doing the laundry , it exercise also our shoulder and arms that makes our body and muscles more stronger and flexible . cleaning the house by sweeping the floor, wiping the windows and etcetera, while doing that we exercise our body in a simple way that makes us healthy and in the other hand we also help our parents doing the household chores with a great benefit
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If you think doing household chores will save you a trip to the gym, you might want to think again.
A new study from Northern Ireland finds that people who report housework as part of their weekly exercise tend to be heavier than those who get their exercise through more traditional means.
In fact, the more time people said they spent performing housework as exercise (which they considered moderate to vigorous physical activity), the heavier they tended to be.
The researchers speculated that people who say they exercise by doing housework are overestimating the intensity or duration of the activity. Or, it could be that people overestimate how many calories they burn doing chores, and eat too much, the researchers said.
The findings suggest that housework "may not be sufficient to provide all of the benefits normally associated with meeting the physical-activity guidelines," the researchers wrote in the Oct. 18 issue of the journal BMC Public Health
there is a lot of household chores we do that serve as an exercise routine in our self . one of example is doing the dishes, in that simple way we exercise our hands and arms that we use while doing the chores . doing the laundry , it exercise also our shoulder and arms that makes our body and muscles more stronger and flexible . cleaning the house by sweeping the floor, wiping the windows and etcetera, while doing that we exercise our body in a simple way that makes us healthy and in the other hand we also help our parents doing the household chores with a great benefit
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