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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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 11:52am

Who is trying to get away?


PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 12:04pm

hey.....can i play jealous,stonethrow...you are in new york city,right?

signed
a nyc wannabe ;)

 

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 12:05pm
I'm trying to figure out why a first year as an undecided major would be a "waste." Most majors in any university are going to require a certain number of gen ed/breadth courses, so if you got the basic English, college algebra, American constitution, computer proficiency, and other requirements out of the way in the first year, plus maybe explored some interests in humanities, social sciences and the hard sciences by taking a few introductory level courses in each, they'd apply to just about any major you'd eventually choose.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 12:08pm
Not NYC, Long Island, so get your facts straight. It's not *that* exciting on LI.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 12:10pm

No, only some of us, but we don't know which of us they're out to get because

 

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 12:12pm

Ah, so you are judging them on accusations and hearsay only, nothing proven and factual?

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 12:13pm
My side of this particular argument is not a belief. I have repeatedly asked you what your basis is for claiming that Saddam was connected to terrorists and/or 9/11. So far, you have offered nothing other than "because that is what I believe." Why won't you back it up. I am genuinely interested, otherwise I wouldn't ask.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 12:14pm

Good point.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 12:15pm

Alot of people are paranoid that the Bush administration wants to sit and listen to us tell our friends how many times the baby pooped today or what time we will be at Chuck-E-Cheese. Alot of people blame Bush because they don't know who else to blame.

Hey, the sun rose today!! Is that Dubya's fault too?

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 12:17pm
As with everyone else on this board, I believe certain parts of the media. Not everyone can have first-hand knowledge of everything. Although, some would like to claim.

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