Let’s Get Physical (GOOD)
The British epidemiologist Jeremy N. Morris died recently. In the 1940s and 1950s, Morris did some of the first empirical research that showed how important it is, health-wise, to have a job that involves some physical activity. A 1949 study compared the health of the drivers of London’s double-decker buses with that of the conductors. “And there was a striking difference in the heart-attack …
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