So many people are failing to get enough exercise that health experts are always trying to find ways to encourage everyone to get more active. Thus, there are fitness 'tips' such as breaking down exercise into small chunks and taking the stairs instead of the lift. Another favourite is the idea that housework can count towards your exercise for the day. Ideally, individuals, should be getting at least 150 minutes of an exercise a week to stay fit and healthy, and yet even squeezing in half an hour of physical activity a day is a stretch in today's world of television, computers and long hours spent in the office.
Thus, of course everybody wants to think you can access the benefits of exercise by doing something that needs to be done - housework. Yet, there is evidence to suggest that individuals who count housework as contributing towards the amount of exercise they do are heavier than those who actually set aside time to play sport or do some kind of formal exercise. The suggestion is therefore that the kind of housework people do is just not strenuous enough to help them burn calories. You have to actually get your heart pumping faster and to feel a little bit out of breath to know you're pushing yourself and keeping fit, which you probaly won't get from dusting and sweeping.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24570276
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