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April 16, 2009

Garden calories

This from the folks at Prevention.com:

A 40-year-old woman can burn 30 percent more calories gardening for one hour than in an aerobics class for one hour: 392 calories versus 306 calories.

My question is this...what kind of aerobics class are we talking about? And what kind of gardening?

Photo credit: Dreamstime.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 9:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Garden facts

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What is she, pulling the plow because they can't afford a horse?

Posted by: Eve | April 17, 2009 10:51 AM

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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