4,25,08--exercise without knowing it

How to Exercise Without Even Knowing It I often think of all that wasted energy when I see someone on a exercise bike or other piece of equipment. Work, work, work also can keep one fit and there is something besides a handsome body to show for it. Now days there are too many work-saving ways. Having Money to spare makes it easy to hire someone to do work for us. A group of scientists recently suggested, in a review that appeared inthe International Journal of Obesity, that Americans are simplyspending too much time talking about how our toxic food environment andour couch potato ways are making us obese. Perhaps there are otherreasons that we’re plumping up, they proposed. Among their alternateobesity theories: we’re not sleeping enough, air pollution messes upour metabolism, we’ve adapted to air conditioning—and so we don’t needto regulate our internal temperatures by ramping up our metabolic rates(thus, burning more calories). At EatingWell, they still believe thateating right and exercising are the ways to manage your weight. To thatend, they present with some excellent ways to exercise without evenknowing it—and feel better on turning on the A/C on those sultry days. 1. Wash a car. Embrace the summer heat—with a hose: Burn calories and make your car look beautiful as you wash, dry and get it (and you) buff. 2. Do your won yardwork 3. Take a break that includes walking around, like walking to the water cooler, walk to get the mail, etc.. 4. Start a home improvement project that takes trips to one of those home-improvement warehouses where you have to walk a lot to see things.Then do your own work. 5. Dog sit for someone, or get a dog yourself and take it for a walk each day. 6. Go on a picnic someplace where you have to haul an ice cooler some distance. Take a ball or Frisbee and use it. Send suggestions to Veda Hale, Box 956, Panguitch, Utah 84759 or email vedahale@hotmail.com