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: 01-13-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:21am
are you saying that the majority of the media are just making things up
Jennie
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:21am
I think there is a good range of opinions available out there. There are also a few good papers left, that can't really be said to be either liberal or conservative. Those are papers that attempt to report the news. On the right, you have Fox, the WSJ, The NY Sun, Commentary, Buchanan's mag and a bunch of others. To imply that opinions form because "liberal" media have a stranglehold on information is disingeneous and sounds as if you are suggesting some sort of collaboration/conspiracy. Given the fact that the democrats have lost all recent, major elections, how would the "liberals" manage to control the media to such a phenomenal extent?
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:26am

So if you admit that the conditions that you are applying to the Kennedy's is also true of every other single family out there....why are you just judging them?


PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:27am

Why do you feel that they are immoral?


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:28am

Murder and rape?


What murders and rapes were they convicted of?


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:35am

That is not one of them as I am not a liberal.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:44am
Right, if I remember correctly she asked if everyone should be. Why would anyone even waste time being jealous of a person that they've never even met IRL.
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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:46am
Not making things up in all cases, but putting their liberal slant on it and putting down people who don't believe the way they do.
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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:48am
That's what incenses me: they weren't.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:52am
Maybe brothers don't count. After all, Dubya's brother's not the sharpest knife in the Bush drawer either.

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