Are modern appliances making women fat? What about the blokes?
June 6th, 2012
In 1952 the average middle aged women’s waist measured 28 inches and the average calorific intake was 1818 a day, at least 1,000 of which were burned off doing the housework.
Today, a middle-aged women’s waistline measures 34 inches, she consumes an average of 2,178 calories a day and instead of lugging around a heavy vacuum a robot does the hard work for her.
So says a survey by an over 50’s service provider in the United Kingdom. The survey was conducted to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, comparing the Britain of 1952 with today. It has unleashed online furore world wide.
According to an article in the Mirror titled ‘Chore point: Experts (probably men) claim women are fatter nowadays because they do less housework’, director general Dr Ros Altmann said modern appliances significantly reduce the time and effort women spend on housework.
“When you think of the time that women had to spend cleaning and cooking, life is so much easier now – although obviously that has contributed to the bigger waistlines,” she said.
Microwaves, dryers and dishwashers are just a few examples of appliances that require less elbow grease. They also free up time so that as Deborah Dunham suggests, “we can break out the bonbons, catch up on our soaps and let the new robotic floor cleaner tidy up.”
Dunham’s reactive statement on United States site Blisstree continues:
A group of so-called experts think they have finally figured out the real reason behind our obesity problem: Women just don’t do enough housework anymore. Duh, why didn’t we think of that? Apparently, women didn’t know how slim and trim they were back then due to their apron-wearing, pie-baking, vacuum-pushing lifestyle.
What do you think? Is the so-called battle of the bulge being caused by modern appliances?
Latest technologies and gadgets are resulting in adverse
effects while providing a lot of facilities to the users. These are somehow adversely
affects the health and may create any health issues as well. Toxins such as mercury,
lead, and lithium can leach by electronic gadgets, cars can leak out oil
sometimes affecting the environment and so indirectly the health as well,
getting power is done by burning coal and it releases some hazardous
particulars in the environment affecting the health adversely, etc. Some household
appliances including washers, laundry machines are very useful as these makes the
life very much easy, but these are very much hazardous as well as these
consumes precious resources including electricity and fossil, water, etc. and these can cause harm to the
health in an indirect manner.