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Gardening good for your health 
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Thursday, June 26 2008 19:12:45 by Alison Patel
Alison Patel writes: Doing 30 minutes of moderate exercise such as gardening can help reduce your risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
According to researchers at the University of Loughbrough, pruning, weeding, lawnmowing and tending to flower beds can help to improve both your mind and your body, the Telegraph has reported.
Non-stop gardening works major muscles in the back, legs and abdominal area and could burn as much as 450 calories per hour for someone that weighs ten stone.
However, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) has warned that whilst gardening is great exercise, people should be careful not to injure themselves in the process.
Helen Welch, spinal clinical specialist for the CSP, said: "People should get out and enjoy their gardens, but they need to be aware that gardening can be tough physical work."
Writing in a recent article in the Daily Telegraph, Bunny Guinness advised green-fingered folk that different gardening tasks worked specific areas of the body.
Ms Guinness advised readers that weeding while squatting is best for the gluteals, pushing a wheelbarrow is great for the thighs and gardeners that want to work their abdominals should try hoeing, strimming, picking, turning compost or starting a lawnmower.
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