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 - 2:42pm
to each his own - i find him creepy. i heard him on the radio one night talking to that fruit cake dobson guy, saying how he would never let his daugther play sports because that is not what girls are supposed to do. very creepy....
Jennie
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:44pm

Actually all of us were conned, although some still do not realize it.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:45pm

You don't think a manic terrorist could slit your artery with tweezers or a fingernail clipper?

That's what I have to LOL about. The thought that alot of people think nothing's possible.

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:47pm
Did you miss the sentences around that one? What else did he say?
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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:50pm

I guess we're a nation of morons then, right?

That;s what the terrorists want us to believe and hear us say.

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Registered: 01-13-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:52pm
which is worse, not having an answer or coming up with an answer and then manipulating everything around you to create a scenario that fits what you wanted the answer to be in the first place. personally i prefer someone who can say i may not have the answer but will work to find one to the corrupt adminsitration we now have.
Jennie
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Registered: 08-12-2003
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:52pm

But, do you think they went there with blindfolds on?


Those already in the armed forces went there because they were ordered to and you don't get to say "Sorry, can't do it today. Check back next week."

 

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:52pm

Did you read it or not?

What did you think?

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Registered: 06-03-2003
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:52pm

<<<"You don't think the head of FEMA and his qualification have anything to do in how a natural disaster was handled?">>>


I read the link you provided and while I didn't find anything in his resume that specifically detailed experience with natural disaster, he did oversee 164 presidentially declared disasters

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 05-30-2006 - 2:55pm

Pretty much.

PumpkinAngel

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