If this isn't the best news ever, I'll eat my handbag. It's official ... shopping keeps you slim. Women burn off over 12,000 calories a year by heading to the high street.
Tracking down the perfect pair of shoes, and the dress to go with them, is a great little workout. We're exercising more than just the credit card.
The average woman shopper will cover just over two miles on one trip - and burn off 200 calories.
Shopaholics who splash the cash five times a month manage a tally of 10.1 miles - or 121.2 miles in a year. In calorie terms, that means we walk off 43 Mars Bars and 65 packets of crisps as we cruise those malls.
Who says? Why, the Golden Mile shopping centre in Warrington, who carried out a study. A canny lot. What better way for a shopping centre to beat the credit crunch than by telling a load of women that spending money on new clothes is good for them?
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