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 - 10:46am
So, he's been rehabilitated?
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:47am
If Castro set foot on US soil, he would be no threat to any American. Many Cuban expats would be furious and probably picket as close as they could get to him. And many cigar lovers would be elated at the lifting of the commercial embargo that his visit would represent. But he wouldn't be any threat. His ability to harm the US was forcibly squashed by Kennedy (IMO) and utterly vaporized by the collapse of the Soviet Union. The only thing left is 40 years of bad blood. And bad feelings from the past seem to really be the only reason why the embargo continues. Bear in mind that we have relations with Russia and China.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:47am
Why would we want his power to collapse? Is it because he's such a stand-up guy or is he a threat?
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:48am
what is depressing is your inabilty to come up with anything more recent than 40+ years ago, something that was aided and encouraged by a country that no longer even exists. there are books that explain all this....
Jennie
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:48am

You said you made it up.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:49am

That's what burns me up so much about it.

Firstly I do agree that insurance should follow the person - and doesn't need to be tied to the employer. That was a paradigm set up by the UAW in the 40s or 50s if I recall correctly.

Nevertheless, corporations are the starting place for now. We (my employer and I) pay about $850/month for a policy that other than Dr.'s visits - we're not likely to actually USE because of the high deductibles on each member. For all practical purposes - it's an emergency policy.

Where is all that money going? There is something seriously wrong here. And the fact that health insurance has one of the highest profit margins and biggest lobbies in DC, tends to make me think the fish is stinkin' from the head down.

Mondo

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:49am

I totally agree.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:50am
Well, if the two topics had remotely related then maybe it would have made sense. But they don't and it didn't.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:50am
Why would that be? Because they have no health insurance? And what are the reasons for that?
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 10:50am

Do you have anything more current than 40 years ago to explain why you fear Castro and Cuba?


PumpkinAngel

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