Work is good for your health?

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Work is good for your health?
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Mon, 05-15-2006 - 5:25am

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=43421
Working Mothers Healthier Than Full-time Housewives

Main Category: Women's Health / OBGYN News
Article Date: 15 May 2006 - 1:00am (PDT)

According to new research carried out in Britain, working mothers enjoy better health than full-time housewives. Despite the stress working mothers face by holding down a job, dealing with childcare, housework and striving to keep the family happy.

It appears that working mothers, when compared to full-time housewives, are less likely to become overweight, have a better level of health and a healthier relationship. The study also found that single mothers experience worse health than working mothers who have a partner and children.

You can read about this study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Team leader, Dr. Anne McMunn, University College London, said that women who combine work with children and marriage do seem to have better health than full-time housewives. Even though they may experience high levels of stress sometimes.

It is not a question of chicken-and-egg either. Dr. McMunn said it is the experience of work plus having a family that brings on the better health, not the fact that only healthier mothers decide to carry on working.

The researchers examined data on women born in 1946 from the Medical Research Council's National Study of Health and Development. The data registers their health from 1946 until they are 54. Women's health was examined, with the help of a questionnaire at the ages of 26 through to 54. Every decade, the questionnaire collects data on each woman's work history, whether she is/was married, has children, her height and weight.

The healthiest women were the ones who had all three of the following:

-- A Partner
-- Children
-- A job

Those reporting the worst health were stay-at-home mothers, followed by childless women and single mothers.

38% of stay-at-home mothers were obese when they reached their 50s, for working mothers the percentage was 23%.

Written by: Christian Nordqvist
Editor: Medical News Today

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 9:02am
question for you, since you appear much more knowledgable than i am on this stuff. did i not read somewhere that the us helped bring/backed al queda in gaining control in afghanastan because they were fighting the russians?
Jennie
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 9:05am
do you think the pasetinians see our backing of isreal as a threat to their way of life? why do you think others wouldnt want to harm us when there are so many who we want to harm.
Jennie
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 9:09am
personally i dont believe anything that gwb says - that some things that come out of his mouth turn out to be able to be verified by other sources does change the fact that i wouldnt believe it if i only heard it from him
Jennie
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 9:15am
i dont believe anyone has said he had no ties to terrorism whatsoever. the question is did he have ties to terrorists who threatened the us - the answer NO. do you really think our country can take out every country who has ties to terrorism? and if that is really our goal, why was saudi arabia not 2nd on our list behind afghanastan, since we know many of the 9-11 hijackers came from that country? does it really make sense to you that we would attack iraq instead of the country they came from?
Jennie
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 9:27am

I have to agree with stonethrow that Castro is a serious threat.

 

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 9:31am
The US.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-03-2006
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 9:34am
Is that not what you're doing? Repeating things that I have said in previous posts?
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Registered: 03-03-2006
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 9:38am

What does that have to do with it? Are you getting personal? Is this relevant to the debate?

Do you like these kinds of posts?

To answer your question, I have health insurance.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 9:40am

....and that is supposed to be a good thing.


PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 9:43am

No, you know? I'm making it up.

Come on, the people here playing intentionally dense is getting a little tiresome. Possibly in another thread, a couple of posters was getting on one poster for letting a someone else influence her decision about her DD wearing make-up.

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