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: 03-27-2003
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 12:54pm
I wouldn't let a 45yo talk me into something if it was a bad idea. What does that have to do with anyhting?
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 1:11pm
A lot of people with "Support Our Troops" bumper stickers and car ribbons wish we had never gone in. I think a lot of people took some lessons from Vietnam to heart: a big one being that you can be against a war without being against those fighting it. "Support Our Troops" is not equivalent to "support this war". Both people I know who went to Iraq had joined the military long before this war was ever declared. But soldiers don't get to say, "I intended to go to Afghanistan to look for bin Laden so please send me there instead". They go where they are sent and do what they are ordered. It's easy enough to say, "they knew what they were getting into when they signed up". They knew they were agreeing to go where sent and do as ordered. But a fair number of them signed up in the immediate wake of 9/11. There was a huge and understandable spike in enlistment. They all should have been sent to Afghanistan. Every last one of them. And then ordered to fan out across the country in a "look behind EVERY door and inside EVERY cave" manhunt for OBL. I support our troops. I just wish their considerable commitment was put to good use in Afghanistan instead of squandered in Iraq. But it's too late now.
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 1:16pm
ITA
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 1:50pm
That's not the way your post was written.
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Registered: 12-10-2003
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 1:58pm

That's fine. And your entitled to your opinion, of course.

However, when you say to the OP: "since I've just read that you're only 20 years old, you're not even considered an adult yet." you implied that by the mere fact that she was 20, she was not considered an adult. There was no conveyance of opinion in that statement to her.

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Registered: 05-26-2006
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 2:01pm

"Also, you stated in the beginning of your post that my opinions are "downright hilarious". Do you burst out laughing at everyone's opinions that you meet in real life? I'd get a pair of boxing gloves if I were you! "

hmm...nope, never said that - acctually what i said what that the thread itself was hilarious; I would never say someone's opinions are hilarious. I just think that you don't seem to back up your arguements, and sometimes its very frustrating.

In terms of you being an american citizen - having stuff that would only be in some peoples dreams; yes I guess certain things like electricity, freedoms etc would be a part of that if you come from certain 3rd world countries; but what do you have that i could never have considering I'm but a Canadian?

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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 2:02pm
One thing I have no patience for is terms of endearment from people I don't even know. It's kind of condescending. Maybe you need to live in a country ruled by a dictator. Cause you are way out of line calling the leader (any leader at any time of this country) a dictator. Last I checked you were free to write this post.
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Registered: 12-10-2003
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 2:02pm
I let a 20 year old talk me into something.....My niece talked me into getting the cutest outfit for an event we were going to. I would have never picked it out myself, but took her advice to try it on and Voila! Super cute outfit!
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 2:03pm
what exactly is there worth supporting with this administration? or even this war? youi know, i have been voting for a long time and have voted many different ways, and until this administration i have always been able to find at least something i could agree with but i cant find one single thing that i agree with this little dictator on - andi find it scary that politicians are that out of touch with the country.
Jennie
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 2:03pm
Go back and read that post. At the bottom I wrote that I knew what the poster was going to say.

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