Did you know that housework can actually be good for you? Well a report that I came across this week says it is, however I do feel that this was done a little tongue in cheek, but the basis of it is to put your heart and soul into your housework to use up the calories.Good in theory but quite impractical as you’d never get through the housework!!

30 minutes of vacuuming will burn 230 calories, equivalent to a pint of lager, but you need to fully extend your arm and incorporate some lunges as well. Don’t know about you but I don’t think vacuuming works like that. Going round the furniture and into the corners could be tricky!!

Then they talk about scrubbing the floor and doing what is equivalent to a push up. Does anybody scrub floors these days? Personally I have a mop. This burns 200 calories,or one slice of pizza.

Cleaning windows and mowing the lawn are also good calorie burners, but I think we know that anyway. Just keep up the good work in other words!

And talking about calories as I often do, are you eating right for your age? There is a new diet theory out now that divides people into age groups, and you need to eat according to that.Our eating habits change as we mature,and probably what you ate as a teenager isn’t the same as you eat now, at least it shouldn’t be.  Teenagers need to be eating calcium rich foods, and nuts and wholegrains as their bodies are still growing.
When you get into your twenties and thirties, and the partying starts to take its toll you need to be upping the iron in you diet, so plenty of green leafy veg.

As we come into our forties we need to be thinking more about folic acid as the parenting takes over from partying. COQ10 is needed as we come into our fifties to help with concentration , and plenty of b vitamins. As we progress into our later years try eating more complex carbohydrates to help stabalise blood sugar levels and keep diabetes at bay.