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| Digging Out: 5 Ways to Prepare Your Health to Shovel Snow |
| Shoveling snow is strenuous exercise. Just the thought of moving hundreds of pounds of snow and slush is enough to make your legs prickle, to make your arms and shoulders burn, and to make your back tire. In fact, shoveling snow is such strenuous exercise that, according to Harvard Medical School, an 185-pound person can expect to burn about 266 calories after just a half hour of shoveling. Like any physical activity, however, shoveling snow poses health risks exacerbated, in part, by weather. |
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