Is Cooking the Secret Ingredient to Living Stress-Free?
Cooking is relaxing!
Seven in 10 adults consider cooking and eating as the sixth ‘love language.’
The poll of 2,000 adults who cook regularly revealed that 80% use food as a way to comfort themselves after a stressful day and 65% will use food as a way to comfort others.
Over three-quarters agree cooking is a calming task for them to do, and it was ranked as the top activity people do when they need to relieve stress (65%), more than twice as high as the second leading choice: cleaning (31%).
People also turn to chores like gardening (30%), doing laundry (25%) and folding laundry (23%) to reduce stress.
The study found by the end of the day, 90% feel some degree of stress. Over a quarter claimed to feel stressed “all the time” or “often” after their day is done.
To destress, respondents said they enjoy tasks such as cooking (80%), cleaning (43%), doing laundry (41%), gardening (39%) and folding laundry (34%).
According to the findings, the most effective ways to relieve stress at the end of the day include listening to music, watching TV, taking a bath or shower, eating a comfort meal or cooking for themselves.
TOP 10 TASKS THAT RELIEVE STRESS
- Cooking – 65%
- Cleaning – 31%
- Gardening – 30%
- Doing laundry – 25%
- Folding laundry – 23%
- Mowing the lawn – 22%
- Doing dishes – 20%
- Organizing – 20%
- Sweeping/vacuuming/mopping – 19%
- Weeding – 18%
