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 - 1:26pm
Just trying to follow what on earth you might mean by your apparent claim that you're all for presumed innocence and due process, when evidently some things are crystal clear to you that have never come to trial.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:28pm
I believe that the Kennedy's deserve their innocence until proven guilty but it doesn't take away from the fact that Teddy did drive off a bridge with his aide in the car and left her to die.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:28pm

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PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:28pm
Once again, not the issue. The issue was whether the war had a false basis. One thing to die for your country, quite something else to die for a lie.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:30pm
ROFL, you poor baby!
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:30pm
I'm not bringing out the guns to have this family crucified for all they did. If they do get away with it, more power to 'em. I just feel bad for the "alleged victims".
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:30pm

And why do you believe it was

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:31pm

Why am I a poor baby?

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:31pm

Who was the head of FEMA appointed by?


PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 1:32pm
Isn't that what you believe? Am I not entitled to feel the same way you do?

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