BS: your social status affects your health

Subject: BS: your social status affects your health
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:12 AM

a book by Michael Marmot has come out in London, citing decades of research to show that those further up the office/society hierachy live longer and are healthier. (The Status Syndrome)

how your social status effects your health and longevity

Subject: RE: BS: your social status affects your health
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:50 AM

Looks to be an interesting book, freda, thanks.

My best friend has been driving a taxi for the past three years. I know it's making him older before his time. He hates it, and it definitely is affecting his self-image.

I don't mind being poor, but then it's a choice and I enjoy the challenge of living on as little as possible...but I'm nuts, so I think that itself might condemn me to live longer than I'd desire.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: your social status affects your health
From: Dead Horse
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 06:27 AM

Social status & health both fairly poor at the moment.
Thank gawd I am white, or I would have been dead years ago! (BG)

Subject: RE: BS: your social status affects your health
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:38 AM

Well, looks like I better retire now, whilst I'm still alive to annoy people!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: your social status affects your health
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:45 AM

Determining this required a STUDY???

Subject: RE: BS: your social status affects your health
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:53 AM

Well, I earn shedloads of money, so I will be alright then.

Subject: RE: BS: your social status affects your health
From: muppett
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 11:03 AM

The more wealtheir I've become, the more unhealthy I've become. When I left School I was a manual worker, working as a gardener, I was on a low wage but managed to eat well, plus I couldn't afford to drink much and the job kept me phyisically fit. Nearly 30 years later, I no longer have a mannual job, I now work as a community worker. Compaired to my peers I concider myself reasonably healthy but compairing my own lifestyle 30 years ago to now I've declined (that's taking age into concideration) don't get as much exersise, I eat when I've got time,which means I often skip meals & I drink more. Yes the job gives me more money but it also gives me more stress.

Subject: RE: BS: your social status affects your health
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 02:55 AM

don't go on buses, there full of shitty poor people.