Prince Harry and his friends need a job.
Full time working mothers have better health than other kinds (?) of mothers, says a new study, which I bet has a lot of holes in its methodology.
Taylor Swift is dating a high school kid who happens to be a Kennedy and crashing weddings. Where are her handlers?
Apt. 11d 
I don’t think people read “full time mothers” to mean “mothers who work full time jobs.”
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Just a typo. Let me fix it.
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They must define Health as something inversely proportional to the number of doctor’s visits… With my full time job and take care of house and three kids I just do not have time to go to the doctor even when I am sick (-: – half joking half not
Maria
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The NYT doesn’t make it at all clear how they are measuring health. Mental health I totally get–being depressed is an occupational hazard of anybody who spends a lot of time at home.
How much did they consider the issue that health is going to determine how much and how consistently you can work? I have a very old friend (not a mom) who is a type 1 diabetic. She’s struggled with diabetes since her mid-teens. Her educational progress and career have both been very erratic, as 1) it’s much easier to control her diet, exercise and schedule at home and 2) she has had many long hospitalizations. That’s one extreme. On the other hand, you have women like my MIL. Generally speaking, she’s been a super healthy, super energetic work-horse, and she gets more done than any three average people. Now, could we fix my diabetic friend’s health by giving her my MIL’s schedule? Not hardly. Or, to take a less extreme case, could we fix whatever is wrong with my health by giving me my MIL’s schedule? No–it would be likelier to kill me. We’re totally different people, with different personalities and different natural energy levels. (Granted, a lot of people would benefit from a more active and involved life, but there are natural limits to what any particular person can do.)
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Related:
“The study finds that for women, continuous marriage without divorce or widowhood is linked to fewer cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure.”
“For women, the researchers found, the longer the marriage, the fewer cardiovascular risk factors. The effect was significant but modest, McFarland said, with every 10 years of continuous marriage associated with a 13 percent decrease in cardiovascular risk.
“But when marriage is disrupted, it can be hard on the health. Women who were continuously married had a 40 percent lower count of metabolic risk factors than women who experienced two episodes or divorce or widowhood, the researchers found.”
http://www.livescience.com/22557-marriage-heart-health.html
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Women who were continuously married had a 40 percent lower count of metabolic risk factors than women who experienced two episodes or divorce or widowhood, the researchers found.”
I’d be interested to know how often two episodes of divorce or widowhood (or widowerhood) are heavily correlated with things like sitting home and engaging in heavy drinking, giving up activities, eating a lot more food, especially bad food, perhaps taking up smoking, giving up exercise, and so on. I’d guess there’s a not insubstantial connection, since those things are pretty strongly correlated with feeling awful, and feeling awful seems likely to be brought on by divorce or widowhood (or widowerhood.)
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I think Harry’s still active-duty military, not jobless, and he’s only 27. I haven’t followed the stories, but I’m inclined to cut him some slack on the partying thing.
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Matt,
The pattern I notice in a lot of studies is that they state “People who do XYZ are healthier” where XYZ is an activity that requires consistency and commitment and showing up on time regularly. Once you’ve got consistency and commitment and showing up on time, you’ve really got it made, regardless of the actual content of the activity.
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Here’s a study I’d like to see: a comparison of the health of regular attendees at a 6:30 AM knitting class to the health of the general public.
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