Gardening Is More Effective Exercise Than Going to the Gym

Gardening Is More Effective Exercise Than Going to the Gym
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By J. D. Heyes, contributing writer for Natural News

In addition to enhancing your life skills and boosting your food security, there is another major benefit of gardening, researchers have found: fitness.

Long-time gardeners have always know that putting plant and seed in the ground and then maintaining plants and crops as they grow is hard work. But chances are good that they weren’t aware of the health benefits of that work.

A half an hour of digging, raking and pushing a lawn mower is just as good as going to a gym.