Yes, being “neat” and adopting NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenes) have something in common. When you spend time cleaning the house, doing yard work, laundry and in general “neating up,” you are contributing to your NEAT score.
Research has
shown that the more you regularly move throughout the day, the healthier you’ll
be. Working out at the gym and then sitting all day doesn’t provide the same
benefit.
This past May(2019) new research in the Journal of the American Medical Association is shedding some new light on
just how active we need to be. I-Min Lee, a professor of epidemiology at the
Harvard University T. H. Chan School of Public Health, decided to test this out
by observing step totals and mortality rates of elderly American women (16,741,
mean age 72). “The basic finding was that at 4,400 steps per day, these
women had significantly lower mortality rates compared to the least active
women,” Lee explains. If they did more, their mortality rates continued to
drop, until they reached about 7,500 steps, at which point the rates leveled
out. Ultimately, increasing daily physical activity by as little as 2,000
steps—less than a mile of walking—was associated with positive health outcomes
for the elderly women. The Atlantic
Interestingly, the longest lived people in the world don’t
pump iron or go to the gym. Instead, their environments constantly encourage
them to move so that the “healthy choice” is the easy choice.
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