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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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-27-2005
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 1:34pm
Personally, I'm more than happy to help pick up the tab for health insurance for others who can't so easily afford it. A country with a signficant percentage of uninsured people is just a nasty epidemic away from serious disaster.
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Registered: 12-10-2003
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 1:35pm

No, you haven't. You have never given any *specific* reasons as to why he is a threat. You have describe his personality and the fact that he hates the US. However, that is in no way close to being an action plan of destruction towards the US.

Again, what is his current Action Plan?

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-12-2003
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 1:36pm
He did quit smoking, but he's getting kind of old to keep up with little ones.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 1:36pm
Just for the record, I am not a liberal either.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 1:36pm
I am not sure that she caught the difference between "socialized" and "universal."
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-10-2003
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 1:38pm

All of them? Every single one of them?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-10-2003
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 1:40pm
So, in otherwords, you are woefully misguided and ill informed n the issue of healthcare costs and issues.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-27-2005
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 1:41pm
I have to say that when it comes to debating health care, there are dismayingly few people who catch, let alone comprehend, the difference between "socialized" and "universal". It's a shame because I think there are some great models out there that could actually work in the US and lower the costs overall...
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 1:41pm
no but thinking that all one has to do to afford health insurance is get a job and that pre-existing conditions dont affect people in their early twenties seem to me to be living in a bit of a bubble
Jennie
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Registered: 12-10-2003
Wed, 06-07-2006 - 1:43pm

There are a lot of people who go out get a job and support themselves and they still can't afford health coverage for themselves or their family.

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