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: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 10:43am

"Do your beliefs go any deeper than Republican administration = right, Democratic administration = wrong?"

Yes, they do.

"Has Bush or any other Republican president ever made any incorrec decisions, IYO?"

Sure, they have.

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Registered: 08-27-2005
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 10:55am
Of course! It's all a conspiracy, right?
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 10:56am
But this was 150 years ago. Opportunities for women to enter into professional life were slim to none, and why would a woman of wealth or even middle class background want to go and do the kinds of manual labor jobs that would have been open to women in the 1850s?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 10:57am
Yes, that was my point as well. I have to add that even my secret conservative sources do not believe this.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 10:59am
Yes, I would also like to know who controls this evil liberal media.
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Registered: 01-13-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:04am
i am quite real thank you. sure clinton missed an opportunity, but i dont believe that missed opportunity cost our country near what the misses by bush have cost us, in money, lives lost and in the way we are seen by the rest of the world. i think i would take clintons miss to bushes any day of the week.
Jennie
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:07am
Like Fox News? Their polling numbers are substantially the same as everyone else's.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:09am

Yes, you heard me say that I have "secret conservative sources", right? NOoooooo, only the posters on here do.

No, I don't have any "secret conservative sources." But, you already knew that.

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:11am
You are saying that the majority of the media are not liberal???
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:11am
George Herbert Walker Bush was president before CLinton. If anyone "missed" an opportunity to deal with Saddam it was Bush 41.

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