Garden Your Way to Health

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It seems pretty logical that gardening burns calories. It is, after all, a physical activity. Even leafing through a seed catalog*, my favorite winter sport, burns more calories than just watching TV. But how does gardening rate compared to other physical activities?

*Consider it as Reading in the table below.

Actually, gardening comes out in the middle range: it’s a good, average exercise, easily the equivalent to many light training and sports activities.

Here are a few statistics on the subject taken from research from the Harvard Medical School.

So what are you waiting for? Lose a few pounds by getting out and gardening!