Work is good for your health?

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Work is good for your health?
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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 - 5:08pm
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 5:25pm
And then you wonder why some folks here aren't taking your posts seriously.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 5:30pm
A good percentage, anyway.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 5:35pm
jealous, of what. i can only speak for myself but my life is way to busy to just put on hold for three years - of course i dont believe for a second that you did that either. but i am a bit curious why you seem to think people are jealous of your life, i have see that sentiment popo up more than once today
jennie
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 5:42pm
This post is a PERFECT example of why people get annoyed with your posts and debate (and I use the term loosely)tactics . Sild is presenting a wonderful debate for you in both intelligence and respect. And then you send it to a screeching halt with a lame "you must be sleeping with him" post.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 5:47pm
why i find them immoral is based on my idea of morality, which is going to be different than others. i will give one example: i know a lady, she used to be a friend of mine, but i havent heard from here in many years, she had 6 children, the 1st when she was 14, she kept the first 2 and gave the other 4 up for adoption, a couple of them after keeping them for an extended period of time. during that same time she had multiple abortions. here reasoning was she didnt like having to remember to take the pill and she like being pregnant. personally i found her actions to be immoral, but i dont expect that others would, but i also dont believe she committed a crime, unless they make stupidity a crime.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 5:55pm

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Is the Weekly Standard less credible than say CNN or FOX?

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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 5:57pm
Uh-oh! If we go there, then nobody's exempt...
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 5:59pm
Who would have done a better job? I don't know their names but I think anybody with a background in relief, emergency services or any emergency response job. Red Cross managers, forest rescue, Coast Guard, EMT. There are plenty of jobs that give experience in how to respond to an emergency. There is the problem of scale, but somebody who was in a coordination position for any of the jobs I listed would have been better qualified.
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Tue, 05-30-2006 - 6:04pm

Embarrassing?

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