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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iVillage Member
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:27pm
I think the polls at the time had 70% in favor of the war. I could be wrong, but the percentage was high.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:30pm

Then by all means support your claims against the Kennedy's.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:34pm

Those would be the ones who believe the president, despite the evidence to the contrary.


PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:34pm
Read one of Priscilla's articles that she posted.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:35pm
how do you know they are not concerned with you, and even if they are not concerned with you how are you certain your calls are not being monitored. it is the information they get while listening to those coutless phone calls that have nothing to do with blowing up a subway that concerns me. i dont want anyone listening in on my phone calls or monitoring my library card use or anything else without going thru legal channels - for me it is that simple. we are a country of laws, to bypass those laws at the whim of an individual makes us no better than the countries run by dictators that we so hate, of course we only hate and want to help them if they are floating on oil. of course i didnt resist airport searches - but when they started confiscating tweezers and finger nail clippers in the name of security i choose to no longer fly - theier inane ideas of what are security risks are what are scary to me.
Jennie
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:36pm

"Those would be the ones who believe the president, despite the evidence to the contrary."

Which is it, 200 million were conned or 100 million?

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:37pm
Here is my list from post 87....what exactly don't you to believe to be true?

There are quite a few Kennedy's that I admire for different reasons.


Eunice Kennedy Shriver started the Special Olympics, to which her son Timothy carries on as chairman.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:39pm

You still didn't answer the question.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:41pm

You still didn't answer the question.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:42pm

Passing the buck, I see.


PumpkinAngel

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