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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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:12am

I never said I'm a city slicker. We got lost in DC one time coming back from Florida and I didn't even want to get out and sightsee. Kind of a depressing city.

Better go pick up the cow sh*t in your yard!

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:14am
i have no probelm whatsoever if castro wants to vacation in the us. i cant see how that could possibly threaten our way of life
Jennie
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:14am
Bwahahahaha
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:15am
oh my gosh, that was what 40 years ago - got anything a little more current.
Jennie
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:16am
Never heard of the pasetinians.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:17am
Bwahahahaha
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:17am

Who said we wouldn't vacation there out of fear of him?

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:18am
what you dont want to acknowledge is that it has nothign to do with doing anything wrong - do you really not have things in your personal life that you prefer to keep personal - and the fact is that if someone, anyone is having access to that information, there is no way you can be guaranteed that they will remain personal
Jennie
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:19am

We have never ever head warheads pointed at others, right?

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:22am

And why is that?

If no one wants to pay for healthcare, you basically get what you pay for. But, you'd never complain about that now, would you?

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