Scientist’s Advice to Women Who Want Children: Watch Sitcoms, Get Fat
The respected journal Nature reports today that:
A combination of stress, dieting and exercise can dramatically affect female fertility, research on monkeys suggests. Although stress is known to reduce fertility, researchers now warn that if a woman is also dieting and exercising, the effect could be many times greater.
What they failed to point out is that this will only encourage law firms, consultancies, and teaching hospitals to dump even more work on their female grunts so that they don’t go off, reproduce, and get productivity-sapping maternity leave.
A separate study in Israel found that women exposed to humor — in this case, a clown’s performance — after IVF treatments conceived at a much higher rate than a control group. No word on whether reducing stress by downing a couple of martinis has the same effect.
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