I finally know why are fatter than generations ago!

DOES THAT MEAN I CAN LOG THE CALORIES I BURN FROM VACUUMING?!?!?
HECK YEAH!!

calories I earn from vacuuming: 0

I'm pretty sure all the refined, processed, deep fried and sugar loaded stuff had something to do with it as well

I call BS. Most women I know do their full time job and then come home and do the majority of housework, too. At least that's what my mom did and what I do (I'm not married, so I do all my own housework.) Furthermore, as a teacher, I am up all day, every day. I have more trouble keeping weight off in the summer when I only have housework to worry about. So yeah, I'm calling BS.

People in general are just fatter because we eat more crap food than ever before. Housework hasn't changed, the food and amount of it has.

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DOES THAT MEAN I CAN LOG THE CALORIES I BURN FROM VACUUMING?!?!?
HECK YEAH!!

Lol that'd be nice! I'd vacuum the whole day haha.

Are are huge obese fatties need to clean more house work and darn socks. Are's suck!

Damn. Can I literally laugh my *kitten* off??? I actually DO log my cleaning, but I think MFP grossly overestimates burn so I just half it - about 30 cal for 15 mins housework rather than 65, especially since I do eat some exercise cals back.

I call BS. Most women I know do their full time job and then come home and do the majority of housework, too. At least that's what my mom did and what I do (I'm not married, so I do all my own housework.) Furthermore, as a teacher, I am up all day, every day. I have more trouble keeping weight off in the summer when I only have housework to worry about. So yeah, I'm calling BS.

People in general are just fatter because we eat more crap food than ever before. Housework hasn't changed, the food and amount of it has.

If you had read the articles, rather than just the titles (like most have) you would have seen that they also attributed it to the fact that we are more technically advanced now than back then and housecleaning is made easier and doesn't require as much effort.

"For one thing, the effort involved is such activities today is less than it once was. Using modern, gliding vacuum cleaners is less taxing than struggling with the clunky, heavy machines once available, and thank goodness for that."


It also referenced that more people are sitting in front of a screen now and are more sedentary than they once were.


"In essence, women had exchanged time spent in active pursuits, like vacuuming, for time spent being sedentary."

Housework, our exercise, and energies expended have most definitely decreased so I'd have to disagree with you about it being the food that is the sole problem.

I"m glad you posted this on the chit chat fun and games because that's all it is. It shows how a big company can take a study and skew the stats to say whatever they want. Sure doing housework is more efficient today but that is not the reason for the obesity epidemic in America. Maybe CocaCola could look at the products they sell first.

Or the consumers that are buying them? Let's all blame the companies for supplying what we freely choose to buy. Take some responsibility for our actions, people.

Liar, liar, pants on fire. I'm way skinnier than my housekeeper.

You have a housekeeper ? Color me envious!

Ha, I do I have a ridiculously heavy vacuum. I log when I do the stairs.

It's also the terrible quality of food most people consume, which in many, many cases is due to a loss of traditional diets (regardless of where we are from!).

Our ancestors had some real knowledge, you know.

I call BS. Most women I know do their full time job and then come home and do the majority of housework, too. At least that's what my mom did and what I do (I'm not married, so I do all my own housework.) Furthermore, as a teacher, I am up all day, every day. I have more trouble keeping weight off in the summer when I only have housework to worry about. So yeah, I'm calling BS.

People in general are just fatter because we eat more crap food than ever before. Housework hasn't changed, the food and amount of it has.

If you had read the articles, rather than just the titles (like most have) you would have seen that they also attributed it to the fact that we are more technically advanced now than back then and housecleaning is made easier and doesn't require as much effort.

"For one thing, the effort involved is such activities today is less than it once was. Using modern, gliding vacuum cleaners is less taxing than struggling with the clunky, heavy machines once available, and thank goodness for that."


It also referenced that more people are sitting in front of a screen now and are more sedentary than they once were.


"In essence, women had exchanged time spent in active pursuits, like vacuuming, for time spent being sedentary."

Housework, our exercise, and energies expended have most definitely decreased so I'd have to disagree with you about it being the food that is the sole problem.

No, I read the article. Vacuuming has not changed since the 1950s, so that is a really weird example. The only housekeeping activity that I can think of that might be significantly easier now is laundry. Seriously. Name another one and we pretty much do them all the same way. At least I know I do. I learned how to clean from my grandmother who was a bona fide 1950s housewife! So I'm quite literally using her technique.

Additionally, read what I said about my job. I'm a teacher. I'm up all day. Nurses are up all day for damn sure, and do heavy (people) lifting to boot. Not every profession is sedentary. I'd venture to say that desk jobs are less to blame than the type and amount of processed food we eat. Desk jobs in offices are not a 21st century invention. People sat on their butts at a desk all day to use a typewriter in 1950 just like we use computers now. Something else is upsetting the math there.

I saw this on the news this morning...lol. I agree with it... but i;m pretty sure they also used to cook home meals all the time instead of just going to Mccdonalds...