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 - 11:48am
No. He's essentially powerless except over his own people. Foreign leaders only pose a threat to the US when they have a source of power that can be used against the US. He formerly did- the Soviet Union. That source of power is now gone. Which renders him impotent and no longer a threat.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 11:49am
Cause she agrees with you, right?
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 11:51am
I am not sure exactly which time frame you mean. When the Soviets were trying to control Afghanistan, Bzrezinski developed and executed a plan to lure them into invading, then deployed Taliban and "Afghan Arabs," led by, among others, Osama bin Laden. This was the real beginning of al-Qaeda, where they learned to fight and were armed (by the US) with stingers and other toys. When the Taliban later gained control of Afghanistan, the US made a deal with them that they would be left alone as long they kept a lid on the opium trade. Osama moved into Afghanistan after he was booted out of the Sudan.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 11:51am

No, you didn't. You said that he's a threat because we wouldn't want him here, and we wouldn't go there. I don't see how that meets any of the three definitions of threat.
1. An expression of an intention to inflict pain, injury, evil, or punishment.
2. An indication of impending danger or harm.
3. One that is regarded as a possible danger; a menace.

Explain how Castro is a possible danger, or has indicated impending danger or harm, or has expressed an intention to inflict pain, injury, evil, or punishment.

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 11:51am
Not today.

 

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 11:51am

1.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 11:52am
Since nothing you've said has indicated that you were using the common definition, I posted it. Saying we wouldn't want him here does not equal threat.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 11:52am

"Some children don't have a nest to leave and 21 is not always the age of leaving the nest, actually a child can be insured until the age of 25, as long as they are a full time student, if I remember correctly."

Right, but they should have a job long before then.

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 11:53am
Yes, we did. You just don't like my answers.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 11:54am
i have never known anyone who thought that way, although i do know people who have had to choose between a roof over their heads and insurance
Jennie

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