Shopping hobby to burn more calories

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2010 08:07 Written by putra Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:01

Exercise need not always go to the gym or fitness center, but enough with the streets and spend time in stores or shopping center, good for shopping or sightseeing.

Unwittingly, the woman who had a hobby of window shopping can burn calories to 385 calories without having to go to the gym.

The average British woman to walk more than 150 miles a year just for shopping activities. A department store in the UK trying to do a survey of 10 women and men to find out how many calories are released when the shopping activities.

By using pedometers calorie counter, note that the average woman spends 2.5 hours minimum time for shopping while men only 50 minutes.

As quoted by the Telegraph, spending time with 2.5 hours to walk the three miles and 50 minutes with 1.5 miles.

However, many people do not realize that health effects will be when they decide to go shopping. According to the survey, 63 percent of participants did not consider shopping as healthy with exercise.

The average person walking distance of 7,300 steps per day, whereas the number of steps recommended by the NHS in order to stay healthy is 10,000 steps every day.

Almost all women adhere to the principle shopping ‘shop till drop’, which is spending time and walking up to really find items sought or coveted, without thinking of the time.

That advantage should be exploited woman who had a hobby of shopping to burn more calories. The use of pedometers as a tool of counter measures also may be effective in controlling foot.