KILLING BY KINDNESS
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LONDON, March 18.
Wives who pamper their! husbands and let them off! washing up and other house-' hold chores are driving them to an early grave, according to a booklet just published by the British Medical Association.
Dr A. L. Wingfield, author of the booklet, “How Not to get a Coronary" says a wife’s over-attentiveness may speed up heart attacks. A wife can kill her husband in four ways, he says:
Driving him to and from the railway station. Making sure he does not do any chores, like making tea or washing up. Feeding him well, then seating him in front of the television set with a cigarette and a feeling of fullness after an evening meal.
Relieving him of ordinary gardening jobs—unless a really big job comes along, like removing a tree stump. Six times as many men die from coronary thrombosis now as in 1937, and overeating, lack of exercise, tobacco and worry are the main causes, says Dr Wingfield.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31941, 19 March 1969, Page 13
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