Housework makes women live longer
IT’S PROBABLY not the most popular piece of health advice ever – but researchers say doing the housework can add years to your life.
They found women who clean, vacuum and do the laundry are likely to live almost three years longer.
But men can breathe a sigh of relief – housework appears to have little effect on them.
They are better off in the garden, according to Dutch academics. The team from University Medical Centre Rotterdam found a 55-year-old woman who does little around the house is likely to live to see her 83rd birthday.
But those who keep on top of the housework should live on to the age of 86.
The benefit for men is much less
Men derive a similar benefit from doing the gardening
marked. Their efforts with the loo brush only buy them an extra year. But men who do the gardening live 2.7 years longer, while working outside has little effect on women.
Dr Klodian Dhana, who led the research, said the differences may partly be explained by the fact that more men engaged in gardening and more women in domestic work. – Mail On Sunday