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
Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 9:44am

I have some advice for you:

Keep living in your little world of "no one wants to harm the US and it's citizens because of their way of life".

You don't think these people want to hurt us?

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 9:47am

How did Iraq's dictator threaten the safety of the US people?


How does Fidel threaten the safety of the US people?


Or I'll make it even easier for you, here is a list of the 10 worst dictators according to Parade magazine....how do each of them threaten the safety of the US people?


http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_01-22-2006/Dictators


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 9:48am

Who?


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 9:49am
Maybe, possibly having supplied some weapons to a group in the Philippines does not cut it as a serious threat to US security, sorry!
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 9:49am

Here's a hypothetical for you:

If terrorists came in and bombed your city today and it was found out that they were supported by a dictator, what action would you propose the US should take?

I don't expect you to answer this, since you probably think that this is irrelevant to the debate. Seems everything you and your co-hort don't want to answer, you claim it's "irrelevant to the debate".

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 9:49am

Who were they?


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 9:51am

She didn't say that.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 9:52am
I thought you said he supported terrorists who had already attacked us. The only such foreign terrorists are al-Qaeda. So, do you or do you not believe that Saddam was involved in the 9/11 attack?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 9:53am
Gosh, you are a Jane-of-all-trades!! Now, you're an interpretor.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 9:54am
No, because you have evidence that he wasn't, right?

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