Don't tell the PM

Better hide this from HC. Her grand plan could kill two birds with one stone - fighting obesity and pumping up production.

Juggling a career along with being a wife or partner and parent may help to keep women healthy, scientists said this week....

...in the study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, McMunn and her team analysed self-reported health records of more than 2,000 women at the ages of 26 and 54 and their body mass index, a method of measuring obesity.

Information on their marital status, work history and whether they had children was also included.

The researchers found that women who had been homemakers most of their lives were most likely to report poor health, followed by single mothers and childless women.

Homemakers tended to gain weight more quickly and had the highest rate of obesity at 38 per cent while women who were employees, wives and mothers had the lowest.