Believing that daily activities like folding laundry and climbing stairs constitute exercise can lead to reductions in blood pressure, body weight, and improvements in other health metrics.

“the other group however was told that the normal daily activities that these people were partaking in the folding of the laundry going up and down the stairs pushing of carts Etc was exercise and more importantly that it was the type of movement that could for instance lead to reductions in blood pressure reductions in body weight improvements in lots of different Health metrics”