Hotel maids who were told their daily work counted as exercise showed improved health markers a month later, even though nothing about their job changed. The shift was purely mental: recognizing that vacuuming and carrying mattresses qualified as the 10,000 steps they were already doing.
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10,000 steps a day.
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Hotel maids in the United States are clinically obese and have really bad health. Even though if you actually look at their job, they are running up and down stairs, they are flipping over mattresses, they are vacuuming, they're actually taking 10,000 steps a day. So they created this fake research project, they interviewed the maids and they were just. The hypothesis project is that as far as the maids thought, is that these researchers wanted to measure their health and well being for insurance. But at the end of asking these maids questions, the researcher said this. Wow, Matilda, did you know that based on what you're telling me, you are walking 10,000 steps a day? And doctors say that is really good. You must feel so healthy. You are doing such great things for your body. Now, one month later, they go back and they check the maids and they are health biomarkers. All the maids who were given that statement were suddenly healthier. You see, these maids in their mind, never saw vacuuming or walking up stairs or hurling or making a bed as exercise. But when the researcher told them to see it as exercise, all of a sudden their BO responded.