snow shoveling

However, snow shoveling can be a risk for your heart.

When done correctly, snow shoveling can provide good exercise.

In order to avoid injuries, snow shoveling should be treated the same as weight lifting.

Firewood hauling and snow shoveling were the hardest physical parts.

Obviously, snow shoveling is not dangerous to everyone.

"Snow shoveling is the single most stressful activity that a sedentary American does.

While it is rough and tumble, snow shoveling can be quite enjoyable if you don´t have to do it for weeks at a time.

"We thought that this evidence should not be enough to convince us that snow shoveling is potentially dangerous," Baranchuk said in a statement.

"Snow shoveling can also strain the heart and cause potentially life threatening injuries, such as a heart attack," Wainwright said in a statement.

"And sledding and snow shoveling depends on whether the snow is wet or fluffy."

Persons doing snow shoveling can reduce their risk of injury by shoveling snow when it is fresh and light.

There's both an aerobic and weight-lifting component to snow shoveling, says Pomerantz, and the weight lifting portion can raise blood pressure.

Elyria Police Lt. Chris Costantino told The Chronicle Telegram her snow shoveling must have been "pretty lucrative."

"Snow shoveling has historically been a young people's job and a bottom-of-the-economic-barrel type of job, and it's getting tough finding people who are willing to do that kind of work."

Dr. Kyle said that according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were more than 73,000 injuries related to snow shoveling in 2003 that required emergency-room treatment.

Several heart attacks related to snow shoveling routinely follow significant snowfalls, said Dr. Gerald Brody, chairman of ambulatory care at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola.

Although he complains about every other chore, Gordon, 14, understands that snow shoveling is a totem-laden art transmitted from father to son, just as sitting in the house waiting for the guy with the snowplow is a totem-laden art transmitted from generation to generation.

KINGSTON, Ontario, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- There has been plenty of anecdotal evidence that snow shoveling is linked to heart attacks, but Canadian researchers confirm snow shoveling can kill.

The true hoops of the city beckon from housing-project walls and glass-flecked lots, where urgent snow shoveling has scarred the ground but cleared the way for another game; from lonesome urban trees and the asphalt beaches by the sea, where a jump shot's arc must be calibrated to the ocean's steady breeze.