Housework adds 3 years to your life (if you're a woman)... but cleaning, hoovering and doing the laundry is of little benefit to men's health
It's probably not the most popular piece of health advice ever dished out – but researchers say that doing the housework can add years to your life.
They found that women who clean, hoover and do the laundry are likely to live almost three years longer.
But men can breathe a sigh of relief – housework appears to have little effect on them. They are better off in the garden, according to research by Dutch academics.
Women live longer as a result of domestic chores but they have no similar effect on men. However, this is probably because women do more housework, say the researchers
The team from University Medical Centre Rotterdam found that a 55-year-old woman who does little around the house is likely to live to see her 83rd birthday – but that those who keep on top of the housework should live on to the age of 86.
The benefit for men is much less marked. Their efforts with the loo brush will only buy them an extra year.
Something we men have known all along. :O)
