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: 12-29-2004
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:06pm
Please refresh my memory - what "jury of peers" are we talking about here?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:08pm
Ever heard of an "informed opinion"? Having one does not necessitate WH briefings, just reading a range of opinions critically and being able to separate fact from belief and opinion. Once you have worked out what some facts are, then you can start thinking about forming an opinion about those facts.
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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:08pm

"Really? That's certainly not what I have been reading. But that leads us back to the question I asked before.....Which one of the Kennedy's you listed (Joe, Jack and Teddy) were convicted of murder and/or rape?"

None of them have been convicted but a couple of them should have been.

"Unless you are telling us that you only believe the innocent until proven guilty, what the jury of peers concludes if you happen to also agree with the conclusion handed down? If so, what exactly qualifies you to be judge and jury in these cases?"

Nothing qualifies me to be judge and jury in these cases and I never said that.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:10pm
Apparently, at this stage, I don't have to do much of anything to have my personal info intercepted.
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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:10pm

My uncle pronounces it that way as a joke but I've never heard not one person pronounce it that way.

How often do you come to LI to inspect manicures? *That's* kind of creepy...

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:11pm

A jury of peers that are summoned to do jury duty????

Is that the answer you were looking for?

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Registered: 08-12-2003
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:12pm

Lots of things aren't so funny. It wouldn't be funny if someone in your family was killed in a war started on the basis of

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:12pm
I am an erstwhile NYer, and I have heard the pronunciation often.
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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:15pm

"Lots of things aren't so funny. It wouldn't be funny if someone in your family was killed in a war started on the basis of false information."

No, it wouldn't be funny. But, do you think they went there with blindfolds on? And why do you believe it was false information because *you* believe that?

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:17pm

And the Democratic mayor of NO wouldn't have nothing to do with that situation, would he?

There we go, let's blame Bush for the rain falling and wind blowing.

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