Housework=Exercise???

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HouseworkExercise???

• Does doing housework help you keep fit?

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Which burns more calories?

• More effective?

• More effective?

• Exercising vigorously

• Doing housework

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If we are active . . .

• Ways to keep active
• List your favorite activities.
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• Studies show that burning calories is not limited
  walking, running, lifting weights, and other
  activities.
• We can burn some calories as well by doing
  housework . . . . . . . .or can we? Lets read
  and find out!

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Healthy Housework?

• To vacuum or not to vacuum

• A new study suggests housework is not the quality
  form of exercise many people consider it to be.
  The report even went as far as saying that those
  who did the most housework were usually those
  most overweight. The study is called, "Does doing
  housework keep you healthy? The contribution of
  domestic physical activity to meeting current
  recommendations for health". It questions whether
  physical activities such as do-it-yourself,
  gardening and housework are such good exercise.
  It acknowledges that any activity is better than
  none, but says, "there is a danger that those
  undertaking domestic 'chores' may assume that
  this activity is moderate intensity" and wrongly
  count it as proper exercise.Read
  morehttp//www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/13102
  1-housework.html

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Research findings

• Studies show . . .

• A total of 4,563 adults participated in the
  survey, which was based on participants' weekly
  physical activity. The analysis from this
  research showed that people who included
  housework as part of their weekly exercise tended
  to be heavier. Research leader professor Marie
  Murphy said "Housework is physical activity and
  any physical activity should theoretically
  increase the amount of calories burnt. But we
  found that housework was inversely related to
  leanness, which suggests that either people are
  overestimating the amount of moderate intensity
  physical activity they do through housework, or
  are eating too much to compensate for the amount
  of activity undertaken."Read morehttp//www.bre
  akingnewsenglish.com/1310/131021-housework.html

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Keeping clean, keeping fit???

• "At an individual level there may be a tendency
  to overestimate the level of 'good behavior'
  we're doing and this is reflected when people use
  food diaries, pedometers or apps to measure more
  objectively what they have achieved, Kevin
  Fenton, the director of health and wellbeing at
  Public Health England, told The Guardian. This
  study may reflect this.

• Good habits

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How much exercise is needed?

• What is your perception of the figures in this
  chart?
• Where would doing housework fall on this chart?

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Keeping clean and keeping lean

• Will mopping make us lean?

• "Domestic physical activity accounts for a
  significant proportion of self-reported daily
  moderate to vigorous physical activity
  particularly among females and older adults, the
  authors of the study wrote. "However such
  activity is negatively associated with leanness,
  suggesting that such activity may not be
  sufficient to provide all of the benefits
  normally associated with meeting the physical
  activity guidelines."

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Deliberate exercise needed

• Various articles have been written about
  the potential calorie-burning and weight loss
  benefits of household chores, some even noting
  that cleaning the bathroom and vacuuming burned
  more calories than using the Wii Fit. And there
  are certainly benefits to staying active, even if
  its not strenuous enough to be considered a
  workout. CNN reported earlier this year on a
  study that pointed to more technology left people
  with less housework to do, which may be linked to
  the obesity epidemic Our world no longer
  necessitates moderate or intense physical
  activity," Dr. Edward Archer, a research fellow
  with the Arnold School of Public Health at the
  University of South Carolina in Columbia,
  told CNN. "Therefore, women (and men) need to
  allocate more time to deliberate exercise to
  overcome the decrement in daily activity. 

• Take time to work out

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Mental fitness with housework

• Fenton believes that doing household chores,
  though linked to unhealthy weight in this
  particular study, should not be crossed off the
  list as ways to stay at least moderately active.
  He cites its potential benefits to mental health,
  too. "From an individual perspective, physical
  activities such as housework, doing the shopping
  and walking to collect children from school or to
  post a letter, can have positive impacts on
  physical and mental wellbeing, he told The
  Guardian. "People who are even more active will
  often see greater benefits and it is important to
  recognize that healthy weight is just one of the
  potential outcomes of physical activity."

• Keep our mind sharp, our weight stable

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Hate your housework? Rate these tasks.

• Task

• Your rating

• Vacuuming
• Ironing
• Food shopping
• Hanging out the washing
• Cooking
• Cleaning windows
• Doing the dusting
• Doing the dishes

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• Eight

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Matching vocabulary
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Sentence Scramble

• quality     Housework     form     is     of    
  not     exercise     a.    
• the     Those    the    were    did   
  housework  
• heaviest    who    most.    
• health     for     recommendations     current  
•   Meeting.    
• none     acknowledges     activity    than   
  It    any    better    that    is.    
• http//www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131021-hou
  sework.html

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In Conclusion

• Learned about a recent medical study
• Reflected on your views about housework
• Worked on vocabulary
• For your assignment . . .