Even doing chores or puttering around the house can accumulate to benefit our health.

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To distract herself from the war, Hazel says she tries to lose herself in her daily chores, tending to a house and a family separated by war.

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The house itself will beckon with food, entertainment, chores and lounging.

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Most of these firms were relatively small until the 1980s, when several oil companies decided that humdrum drilling chores were no longer worth doing in-house.

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