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and we are wondering why a lot of Americans are obese. Simple tasks like these help burn a few calories.

What?! Do you fold your clothes? It burns about as many calories as watching TV and picking up the remote on commercial breaks...

Folding a week of laundry for 3 people takes about an hour. Reclaiming that time and doing actual exercise instead would work miracles.

If we all spent hours per day on unnecessary manual labor instead of our jobs or learning, yes, obesity probably wouldn't be an issue anymore.