Favorite shopping: with pleasure

Now even the grumpy husband will not rise hand to call a Shopaholic disease. According to a new study, running around the shops is not only not harmful, but rather beneficial to health.

While shopping calories melt like ice cream in the sun. The group of experts on request of shopping centers estimated that it helps the average Briton to burn up to 495 calories in three hours (5 calories per minute) and held more than 240 km in search of bargains.





Specialists tested using steps 2 thousands of buyers. It turned out that the woman covers a distance of almost 5 km in 2.5 hours of grocery shopping on a weekly basis. While men usually spend for shopping, 50 minutes and cover just about 2.5 km, According to representatives of Department, the study demonstrates that the love of Londoners for shopping is not only morally satisfying, but also is a kind of endurance training.

Health service recommends to do each day not less than 10 thousand steps. In the pursuit of new things women do on average 7.3 thousand, but don't consider shopping exercise. Almost half of women surveyed admitted that they run the shops until then, until they fall from exhaustion.







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