Beginner Gardening: Gardening is a dainty activity?, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Just found this on an old Email:

"Flower Power: Gardening Helps Prevent Osteoporosis Lori Turner, associate professor of health sciences at the University of Arkansas, did a study of 3,310 women ages 50 and older and found that gardening was more effective at protecting against osteoporosis than jogging, swimming, walking or aerobics. Part of it has to do with weight bearing exercise being the most important type of exercise for maintaining bone density. But Turner said, "We hadn't expected yard work to be significant," Turner says, "It's taken for such a dainty activity. But there's a lot of weight-bearing motion going on in the garden, digging holes, pulling weeds, pushing a lawn mower."


Dainty activity?!!


What's your opinion?


My Southold friend, Lynn, worked long hard hours to create the beauty she has and I doubt she'd think of the work as "dainty" - neither do I.