Modern women get fat without home affairs

Modern women are gaining a lot more extra padding than their mothers and grandmothers. It turns out that this is because they spend less time on household chores.

In 1965, a housewife spent on cooking, cleaning, washing dishes and other housework   27 hours a week, and their contemporaries cope with all this for only 13, 3 hours. As a result, they burn each day by 360 calories less than their mothers and grandmothers. And the cause of excess weight in the majority of today's women are not in an unhealthy diet as inspire the experts, namely the low domestic activity.

There are two main reasons why women have to pay much less time home affairs , the sooner. The first reason is the smaller amount of free time (the number of housewives has dropped dramatically, the vast majority of women work), and a desire to spend a few free hours to rest, rather than standing at the stove. The second reason - come to the daily lives of a number of technologies. Modern washing machines, dishwashers, microwave ovens, toasters, vacuum cleaners, and built aerogrili created in order to facilitate the work of housewives and save her time.

This is the most savings, women, alas, spend sitting and lying at the TV or long telephone conversations, it turns out the study authors from the University of South Carolina. However, despite the reduction in time spent on housework, women still carry the lion's share of the responsibilities in the home, when compared with men. In particular, cleaning and cooking fall almost entirely on women's shoulders. (READ MORE)

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