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: Gardening Counts As Moderate- And High-Intensity Exercise For Kids, Study Finds
: Sunny Gardens® February 15, 2014, 06:19:11 AM

Gardening Counts As Moderate- And High-Intensity Exercise For Kids, Study Finds

Gardening counts as moderate- to high-intensity exercise for kids, according to a small new study. To gauge the physical intensity of common gardening activities, Korean researchers had 17 children with an average age of 12 in South Korea wear telemetric calorimeters and heart rate monitors as they engaged in 10 gardening-related activities, including watering, digging, sowing seeds, harvesting ...

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