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AN INQUIRY among 2,700 workers in Italy and Holland by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has established that commuting can damage your health. The report — a rare example of serendipity — reveals that daily travel can also cause actual discomfort.
Those who frequently stand on one leg while hanging on to a rail with the other arm pinned to the side, competing desperately with 10 other bodies for the same square yard of rocking floor, will endorse that finding. Sufferers will also confirm that commuting can, as the report reveals, cause excessive perspiration and spread germs.
The World Council for the Dissemination of the Obvious is now to launch an inquiry into the proposition that eating causes loss of appetite.