What is unusual for our lifestyle today (weight resistance machines &
aerobics)
was normal daily physical activity for our grandmothers and earlier
generations:
Vegetable gardening: digging, trenching, hoeing, planting, weeding,
mulching, harvesting.
Cooking & canning. Chopping wood for the stove. Pumping & hauling water.
Butchering cows, deer, other animals, & preserving meats.
Walking, running, riding horses.
Tending the animals: feeding, cleaning, calving, rescuing.
Carding wool & cotton, spinning into thread, weaving cloth, sewing &
knitting, washing clothes in the river or in the boiler over an open fire...

...and breastfeeding babies.

I'm exhausted just thinking about all this. I need to lie down...   :-}

Phyllis



--- Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC
--- Glendale, AZ, USA
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