If you want to lose weight, be healthy and live longer, forget the gym. Ordinary activity - gardening, washing up, and even fidgeting - can be more effective than hard exercise. For example, cleaning a window burns 250 calories, washing the car burns 330 and ironing a load of washing 210. Fidgeting alone can burn up to 350 calories per day! Our ancestors kept fit by integrating exercise into daily life, but modern conveniences have turned us into couch and desk potatoes. Peta Bee shows how we can redress that balance, with chapters on how to increase activity levels on the move, in the office, at home and when shopping; and there are plenty of suggestions for busy parents and children. With body and mind benefits for each activity, advice on tailoring your exercise and healthy eating, this book is a must for anyone with no time for the gym.
- ISBN10 1856267598
- ISBN13 9781856267595
- Publish Date 21 February 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
- Imprint Kyle Cathie
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English