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 - 11:58am
So, people who support the war and this administration are "idiots"? What does that make the people that support neither?
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 12:01pm

"Americans supported Osama bin Laden (did you know he's a terrorist? I'm guessing you didn't) and that is no secret. There has been much public regret about it. He was supported by the US government back when it was thought that his wrath would never be directed anywhere but at the Soviet Union. Boy did that one ever come back and bite us in the behind."

Do you think I crawled from under a rock? LOL.

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 12:02pm
You seem kind of gloating about this statment. Was he considered a terrorist when President Clinton failed to nab the guy?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 12:05pm
Just as another poster berared another poster for letting her 16 year old sister talk her into something, I would not let a 20 year old talk me into anything.
iVillage Member
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 12:06pm
Now we have psychics on this board, who can actually go into other people's minds!
iVillage Member
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 12:07pm
No one supports the war where you live?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 12:09pm
I don't agree that it was a mistake to invade Iraq but that we should have put more effort into catching Osama.
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 12:11pm
I can't say noone, because I don't know everyone. (Which is why I said "on the whole") For the most part, a majority is no longer for it.
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Registered: 09-08-2003
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 12:40pm

"Even better is that your views don't relect the rest of this country"


Do you even look at polls?

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 12:48pm
I doubt it was a rock, but you lived somewhere that you had no idea the US funded OBL back in the 80's. If you knew, you wouldn't have to ask for an example of the US funding terrorists.

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